Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Globefish

Globefish , noun

(Zoology) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.