balloonfish

English

Diodon holocanthus

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

balloon +‎ fish

Noun

balloonfish (plural balloonfishes or balloonfish)

1. A fish of the genus Diodon or Tetraodon, capable of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus.

Synonyms

• (genus Diodon): diodont, porcupinefish

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “balloonfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Translations

blowfish — see blowfish