porcupine fish

noun

any of various plectognath fishes of the genus Diodon and related genera, of temperate and tropical seas, having a body that is covered with sharp spines and can be inflated into a globe: family Diodontidae Also calledglobefish

We have received many curious specimens: sea-horse, porcupine-fish, key-hole shells, etc.

They leave him alone; and the Porcupine-fish goes back to his usual shape, the spines lying flat until wanted again.

Some have bony coats of mail and sometimes the coat of mail is covered with thorns, as in the porcupine-fish.

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