资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Puffer \Puff"er\, n.
   1. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant
      commendation.

   2. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold
      at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. --Bouvier.

   3. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the
          species of {Tetrodon} and {Diodon}; -- called also
          {blower}, {puff-fish}, {swellfish}, and {globefish}.

Diodon \Di"o*don\, n. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + ?, ?, a tooth:
   cf. F. diodon.]
   1. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of whales.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Diodon
     n : type genus of the Diodontidae [syn: {genus Diodon}]