family diodontidae

English Thesaurus

1. spiny puffers (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish family,
definition	:	any of various families of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	spiny puffer,
definition	:	puffers having rigid or erectile spines (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	diodon, genus diodon,
definition	:	type genus of the Diodontidae (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	chilomycterus, genus chilomycterus,
definition	:	burrfishes (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order plectognathi, order tetraodontiformes, plectognathi,
definition	:	boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers (noun.animal)