burr-fish

burr·fish

[bur-fish]
noun, plural burr·fish·es ( especially referring to two or more kinds or species ) burr·fish.
any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.

Origin:
so called from its spines; see burr1, fish

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burrfish

noun
any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines 
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Burr-fish is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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