porcupine fish

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porcupine fish

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porcupine fish (plural porcupine fish or porcupine fishes)

  1. Any of several tropical fish species in the family Diodontidae that are covered with sharp spines and inflate themselves when threatened.
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 161:
      I took a knife down from where it hung on the side of the fireplace, & place the sharp tip against the taut body of the porcupine fish.

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