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Definition of Diodon

1. Noun. Type genus of the Diodontidae.

Definition of Diodon

1. n. A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

Medical Definition of Diodon

1. 1. A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Fishes, and sea hedgehogs. 2. A genus of whales. Origin: Gr. = twice +, a tooth: cf. F. Diodon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diodon

Literary usage of Diodon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... non-volcanic —Singular Incrustations—Insects the first Colonists of Islands— Fernando Noronha—Bahia—Burnished Rocks—Habits of a diodon —Pelagic ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"... are not uncommon among petrifactions. 1 Diod. histrix. Bl. 126, is the same species not inflated. I name it to avoid all equivoque, diodon punctatus. ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... non-volcanic —Singular Incrustations—Insects the first Colonists of Islands— Fernando Noronha—Bahia—Burnished Rocks—Habits of a diodon —Pelagic ..."

4. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"... under the title of the oblong diodon.' In form, he fays, ... diodon, differs from the other in being ..."

5. Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Reptilia and Pisces by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1854)
"Genus diodon. 638. Two of the compound lamellated teeth, ... A compound lamellated tooth, from which a vertical section has been removed, of the diodon ..."

6. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1828)
"DESCRIPTION of an apparently new species of diodon. SL MITCHILL. Read May 28, 1827. I RECEIVED a short time since, through Lieutenant Abraham L. Sands, ..."

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