porcupinefish

Questions about porcupinefish

What does porcupinefish mean?

porcupinefish means "spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters".

How many syllables are in porcupinefish?

porcupinefish has 5 syllables and divides as por-cu-pi-ne-fish under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for porcupinefish?

Close synonyms include porcupine fish, Diodon hystrix. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is porcupinefish a common word?

porcupinefish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.