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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

A plectognath fish of the genera

Diodon

Tetrodon

, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also

porcupine fish

, and

sea hedgehog

. See

globefish ‎(plural globefishes or globefish)

Any of many marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae, especially the puffer or sunfish, that can inflate itself to form a globe.

blowfish — see blowfish