NOUN | food | pufferfish, blowfish, sea squab, puffer | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver |
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animal | pufferfish, puffer, blowfish, globefish | any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe |
Meaning | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver. | |
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Synonyms | blowfish, sea squab, puffer | |
Part of | puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish | Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe |
Narrower | fugu | A blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous |
Broader | saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food |
Substances | tetrodotoxin | A powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish |
Meaning | 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. | |
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Synonyms | puffer, blowfish, globefish | |
Member of | Tetraodontidae, family Tetraodontidae | puffers |
Parts | blowfish, sea squab, puffer, pufferfish | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver |
Broader | plectognath, plectognath fish | Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines |
Spanish | pez globo |
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