blowfish

blow·fish

B0339700 (blō′fĭsh′)n. pl. blowfish or blow·fish·es See pufferfish.

blowfish

(ˈbləʊˌfɪʃ) n, pl -fish or -fishes (Animals) a popular name for puffer²

puff•er

(ˈpʌf ər)

n. 1. a person or thing that puffs. 2. Also called blowfish, globefish. any of various spiny fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of inflating the body: several species contain the potent nerve poison tetrodotoxin. [1620–30]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	blowfish - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liverpuffer, pufferfish, sea squabglobefish, 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 pufferssaltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as foodfugu - a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonoustetrodotoxin - 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 puffersglobefish, puffer, pufferfishplectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spinesfamily Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontidae - puffersblowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver