blaasopn.
/ˈblɑːsɒp/, /ˈblɑːsəp/, U.S. /ˈblɑsəp/, South African English /ˈblɑːsɒp/ South African.
A puff-fish: see puff n. and adj. Compounds 1.
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rabbitfish1842
tambour1854
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blaasop1902
toado1943
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of
toad-fish1612
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balloonfish1834
swell-fish1839
tambour1854
swallow1876
blaasop1947
1853 L. Pappe Synopsis Edible Fishes Cape Good Hope 8 This fish (Blaasopvisch; Balloonfish; Toadfish) is never found in Table Bay, but is very common in the bays to the east of it.]
1902 J. D. F. Gilchrist in Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 11 227 Blassop, Toad-fish (E. London). Tetrodon honkenyi.
1913 W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony 159 Tetrodon honkenyi..Blaasop; Toad-fish (East London).
1947 K. H. Barnard Pictorial Guide S. Afr. Fishes 209 Globe-Fishes or Puffers. Known at the Cape as Blaasops and in England and America as Puffers from their habit of ‘blowing up’ or puffing out the body; called Tobies in Natal.
1947 L. G. Green Tavern of Seas iv. 37 The blaasop's liver contains a deadly poison.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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