puffer

puff·er  (pfr)

n.

Any of various prickly, often poisonous, chiefly marine fishes of the family Tetraodontidae that are capable of puffing up by swallowing water or air. Also called blowfish, swellfish.

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puffer [ˈpʌfə]

n

1. a person or thing that puffs

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called globefish any marine plectognath fish of the family Tetraodontidae, having an elongated spiny body that can be inflated to form a globe

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	puffer - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab globefish, puffer, pufferfish, blowfish - any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food fugu - a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous tetrodotoxin - a powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish
	2.	puffer - any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers globefish, pufferfish, blowfish plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines family Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontidae - puffers blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver

Translations

puffer [ˈpʌfəʳ] N → locomotora f

puffer

n (baby-talk: = train) → Puffpuff f (baby-talk)