pufferfish
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
pufferfish (countable and uncountable, plural pufferfish or pufferfishes)
- Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened; puffer, blowfish, swellfish, balloonfish, globefish.
- (uncountable) The meat of these fish, a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins; (Japanese) fugu.
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Translations[edit]
blowfish — see blowfish
a delicacy popular in Japan
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