spiny puffer
English Thesaurus
1. puffers having rigid or erectile spines (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | plectognath, plectognath fish, |
| definition | : | tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | diodon hystrix, porcupine fish, porcupinefish, |
| definition | : | spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | balloonfish, diodon holocanthus, |
| definition | : | similar to but smaller than porcupinefish (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | burrfish, |
| definition | : | any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | diodontidae, family diodontidae, |
| definition | : | spiny puffers (noun.animal) |
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