pufferfish

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
  2. (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.

Synonyme

sea squab

colomesus

whitespotted blaasop

meleagris

nigropunctatus

patoca

broadbarred toadfish

poison puffer

white spotted blow fish

white-spotted puffer

Übersetzungen

Tetraodon fahaka

Tetraodon spp.

Colomesus

Tetraodon hispidus

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Arothron hispidus

Etymologie (Englisch)

From puffer + fish.

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