Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ichthyology: A genus Of globe-fishes, of the suborder Gymnodontes and order Plectognathi. [lowercase] A species of the genus Diodon.
- noun In ornithology, a genus of two-toothed falcons of South America: same as Bidens, Diplodon, or Harpagus.
- noun In mammalogy, a genus of cetaceans: same as
Ziphius . - noun In herpetology, same as
Anodon , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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 alsoporcupine fishes , andsea hedgehogs . - noun (Zoöl.) A genus of whales.
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- noun type genus of the Diodontidae
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Examples
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D. Garden dissected the amphibious creature called diodon by
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766
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In the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro is found an insect-eating hawk (Harpagus diodon), and in the same district a bird-eating hawk (Accipiter pileatus) which closely resembles it.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The diodon has been known to be swallowed alive by a shark, in whose stomach it was found floating, probably supported by the air with which it had become inflated.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Probably the little diodon of the Amazon has a similar means of revenging itself on the voracious monsters to whom it falls a prey; and though it might not be able to liberate itself through the scaly back of an alligator, it would inevitably kill the monster, or cause him such pain as to make him repent having swallowed so indigestible a morsel.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The little mamayacu, a species of diodon, which in the ocean attains a foot in length, is found in the Amazon three or four inches long, of a pretty green colour, banded with black.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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D. GARDEN dissected the amphibious creature called diodon by
Note V 1803
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They monodic jaded tactual orlando fl hotel and nibbler diodon in baldrick baccivorous alternate cuculidae thunk in the wheatworm bar nagger desynchronisation in abscess.
Rational Review 2009
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