Diodontidae

Noun

Meaning

spiny puffers

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

blowfish globefish pufferfish porcupinefish burrfish fugu toadfish balloonfish swellfish thornback family Diodontidae

Hypernyms

fish family

Examples

Counting these teeth-like bones is a way of distinguishing similar families, for example, the Tetraodontidae ("four-toothed"), Triodontidae ("three-toothed"), and Diodontidae ("two-toothed"). Source: Internet

Porcupinefish are fish belonging to the family Diodontidae (order Tetraodontiformes ), also commonly called blowfish and, sometimes, balloonfish and globefish. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

diodone diodont diodontid diodoquin Diodora apertura dioecian