Word.ws English Dictionary

porcupine-fish

porcupine-fish is the alternative form of porcupine fish.

Meaning of porcupine fish

Noun

porcupine fish (plural porcupine fish or porcupine fishes)

  1. Any of several tropical fish species in the family Diodontidae that are covered with sharp spines and inflate themselves when threatened.
    • I took a knife down from where it hung on the side of the fireplace, & place the sharp tip against the taut body of the porcupine fish.2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 161
    Synonyms:
    sea porcupine

Forms of porcupine-fish

pluralporcupine-fish
pluralporcupine-fishes

Questions about porcupine-fish

What is porcupine-fish the alternative form of?
Porcupine-fish is the alternative form of porcupine fish.

Words near porcupine-fish in the dictionary

  1. porcupine grasses
  2. porcupine puffer
  3. porcupine puffers
  4. Porcupine Ridge
  5. porcupine tomato
  6. porcupine-fish
  7. porcupine-fishes
  8. porcupinefish
  9. porcupinefishes
  10. porcupines
  11. porcupinesque

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: porcupine-fish (page history and authors); porcupine fish (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “porcupine-fish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/porcupine-fish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.