porcupine fish in English
noun
1
a tropical marine fish that has a parrotlike beak and is covered with sharp spines. It inflates itself like a balloon when threatened.
They went swimming with loggerhead turtles, bottle-nosed dolphins, nurse sharks, moray eels, stingrays, and porcupine fish at one of the world's top dive sites.
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1. One of the stars of Jane's collection was this porcupine fish,[Sentencedict] which probably came from the Tropics.
2. Noun burrfish, Burrfishes A porcupine fish with spines that are permanently erected, occurring in tropical waters of the Atlantic and Pacific
3. And from that little egg, they pass through this spiky little porcupine fish stage, reminiscent of their ancestry, and develop -- this is their little adolescent stage.