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burfish

burfish is the alternative spelling of burrfish.

Meaning of burrfish

Noun

burrfish (plural burrfishes or burrfish)

  1. Chilomycterus schoepfi, a fish of the family Diodontidae distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body.
    Synonyms:
    burfish

Forms of burfish

pluralburfishes
pluralburfish

Questions about burfish

What is burfish the alternative spelling of?
Burfish is the alternative spelling of burrfish.

Words near burfish in the dictionary

  1. Bureya
  2. burfee
  3. burfees
  4. burfi
  5. burfis
  6. burfish
  7. burfishes
  8. burflower tree
  9. Burfoot
  10. Burford
  11. Burfords

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burfish (page history and authors); burrfish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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