pufferfish English

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pufferfish

— noun (= puffer) 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

— noun (= blowfish) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver

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blowfish

puffer

globefish

sea squab

fish

colomesus

balloonfish

whitespotted blaasop

white-spotted puffer

white spotted blow fish

swellfish

poison puffer

patoca

nigropunctatus

meleagris

fugu

broadbarred toadfish