Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bur fish

Bur fish ({not transcribed})

(Zoology) A spinose, plectognath fish of the Atlantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.