Associations to the word «Burrfish»

Wiktionary

BURRFISH, noun. Chilomycterus schoepfi, a fish of the family Diodontidae, distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body.

Dictionary definition

BURRFISH, noun. Any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats