PUFFER FISH


Meaning of PUFFER FISH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1927

1. : any of a family (Tetraodontidae) of chiefly tropical scaleless marine bony fishes which can distend themselves to a globular form and most of which are highly poisonous — called also blowfish, globefish, swellfish — compare fugu

2. : any of various fish of the same order (Tetraodontiformes) as the puffer fish

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