blow·fish (bl  f sh )n. pl. blowfish or blow·fish·es See puffer. |
blowfish [ˈbləʊˌfɪʃ]
n pl -fish, -fishes
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a popular name for puffer [2]
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| Noun | 1. |  blowfish - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liverglobefish, 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 puffersplectognath, 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 |
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