blowfish

blow·fish  (blfsh)

n. pl. blowfish or blow·fish·es

See puffer.

Thesaurus

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