Pufferfish

Quick meaning: Pufferfish is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

More Meanings

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Recently, however, a scientist in Britain proposed a short cut that would use the genome of the fugu, a pufferfish known as a dangerous delicacy among Japanese sushi eaters, to speed the search for human genes.

Word Forms

• pufferfishes

Synonyms for pufferfish

Depending on context, synonyms include balloonfish, blowfish, globefish, puffer, swellfish, fugu.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include puffer, blowfish, globefish, swellfish, balloonfish, puff-fish.

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