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puffer

noun

1 puffer

Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver.

synonyms: blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab.

Roget 935: flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.], whitewasher.    toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; ... show more

Roget 935: flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.], whitewasher.    toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; ... show more

2 puffer

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.

synonyms: blowfish, globefish, pufferfish.

Dutch: kogelvis


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