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Definition of Porcupine fish

1. Noun. Spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Porcupine Fish

Literary usage of Porcupine fish

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"porcupine fish. See DIODON. PORCUPINE RIVER, a tributary stream of the Yukon. Fort Yukon is at the confluence of these rivers. The Porcupine is navigable ..."

2. Fish Stories Alleged and Experienced: With a Little History Natural and by Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan (1909)
"Even the small mouth of the porcupine fish is made just as harmless to other fishes as ... Even the flesh of the porcupine fish, thin and dry as it seems, ..."

3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"PORCUPINE-FISH. Diodon hystrix. Although the porcupine-fish has been taken at various points on the east coast of the United States as far north as ..."

4. Western Australian Year Book by Western Australia Registry Dept, Western Australian Office, Australian Bureau of Statistics (1902)
"... porcupine fish," Rockingham. Diodon maculata, " Common porcupine fish," NW * The flat-fishes, ..."

5. Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before: Together with Notes on the Cults by George Turner (1884)
"The porcupine-fish wished to fight with the shark, and the su'e said he would ... The porcupine fish leaped into his mouth, cleared the serrated jaws, ..."

6. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The common porcupine-fish, Diodon hystrix, is found in all seas, ... A second species, equally common, is the lesser porcupine-fish, Diodon holacanthus. ..."

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