balloonfish

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun balloonfish has 1 sense

balloonfish(n = noun.animal) diodon holocanthus - similar to but smaller than porcupinefish; Array

is a kind of spiny puffer

is a member of diodon, genus diodon

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CIDE DICTIONARY

balloonfish,

A fish of the genus Diodon (such as Diodon holocanthus) or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. It is similar to but smaller than the porcupinefish. See Globefish, and Bur fish. [1913 Webster]

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