family Tetraodontidae

Thesaurus

Noun

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family Tetraodontidae - puffers Tetraodontidaefish family - any of various families of fishorder Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes, Plectognathi - boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffersglobefish, 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