SPINY PUFFER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spiny puffer mean? 

• SPINY PUFFER (noun)
  The noun SPINY PUFFER has 1 sense:

1. puffers having rigid or erectile spines

  Familiarity information: SPINY PUFFER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINY PUFFER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Puffers having rigid or erectile spines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("spiny puffer" is a kind of...):

plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spiny puffer"):

Diodon hystrix; porcupine fish; porcupinefish (spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters)

balloonfish; Diodon holocanthus (similar to but smaller than porcupinefish)

burrfish (any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines)

Holonyms ("spiny puffer" is a member of...):

Diodontidae; family Diodontidae (spiny puffers)