Usually means: Spiny, tropical fish with venom.
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  1. heteracanth: Wordnik
  2. heteracanth: Wiktionary
  3. Heteracanth, heteracanth: Dictionary.com
  4. Heteracanth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. heteracanth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Heteracanth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. heteracanth: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Heteracanth: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heteracanth)

adjective:  (botany) Having spines of different sizes.
adjective:  (zoology) Having the spines of the dorsal fin asymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

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