pufferfish (redirected from Pufferfishes)

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Noun	1.	pufferfish - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver blowfish, puffer, 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.	pufferfish - 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, puffer, 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