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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 also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of whales.

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  • noun type genus of the Diodontidae

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