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BALLOONFISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does balloonfish mean?
• BALLOONFISH (noun)
The noun BALLOONFISH has 1 sense:
1. similar to but smaller than porcupinefish
Familiarity information: BALLOONFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Similar to but smaller than porcupinefish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
balloonfish; Diodon holocanthus
Hypernyms ("balloonfish" is a kind of...):
spiny puffer (puffers having rigid or erectile spines)
Holonyms ("balloonfish" is a member of...):
Diodon; genus Diodon (type genus of the Diodontidae)
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