pufferfish

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

blowfish

🐡

puffer

globefish

sea squab

fish

🐟

balloonfish

colomesus

whitespotted blaasop

meleagris

nigropunctatus

patoca

swellfish

fugu

broadbarred toadfish

poison puffer

white spotted blow fish

white-spotted puffer

Translations

Kugelfisch

pesce palla

kogelvis

🐡

Tetraodon hispidus

pez globo

🐡

Colomesus

Tetraodon spp.

Tetraodon fahaka

baiacu

🐡

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Etymology

From puffer + fish.