Definition of diodons Diodons
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What does diodons mean?
Part of speech
🔤- diodons, noun, plural of diodon.
WordNet
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| diodon - type genus of the Diodontidae | ||
| genus Diodon | ||
| fish genus any of various genus of fish | ||
| diodontidae, family diodontidae spiny puffers | ||
| diodon hystrix, porcupine fish, porcupinefish spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- diodon (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. - diodon (n.)
A genus of whales.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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diodon
dī′o-don, n. a genus of globe-fishes which have all their teeth consolidated on the jaws, so as to make them like the beak of a bird. [Gr. dis, twice, double, odous, odontos, a tooth.]
