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noun
Chilomycterus schoepfi, a fish of the family Diodontidae distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: burfish
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noun
any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spiny puffer
History
From burr + fish.
Across languages
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