porcupinefish

1. 1.

   spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters

   Synonymsporcupine fishDiodon hystrix

   Broaderspiny puffer

   Part ofDiodon

Other forms of porcupinefish

plural

porcupinefishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

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: por-cu-pi-ne-fish. The stress falls on "pi".

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.