Akademik

Diodontidae

noun

spiny puffers

• Syn: ↑family Diodontidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Plectognathi, ↑order Plectognathi, ↑order Tetraodontiformes

• Member Meronyms: ↑spiny puffer, ↑Diodon, ↑genus Diodon, ↑Chilomycterus, ↑genus Chilomycterus

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈdäntəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Diodont-, Diodon, type genus + -idae

: a family of blocky to nearly spherical plectognath fishes that live in warm shallow seas and have the body covered with spines and the teeth fused into a cutting plate in each jaw — see porcupine fish

Useful english dictionary. 2012.