porcupinefish 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. It is the gas bladder from a Porcupinefish (often called Spiny Pufferfish or Burrfishes)
2. Burrfish (plural Burrfishes or burrfish) Chilomycterus schoepfi, a fish of the family Diodontidae distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body