1. Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
   - blowfish, sea squab, pufferfish 
2. 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
   - pufferfish, blowfish, globefish

Derived forms: puffers

See also: puff

Type of: plectognath, plectognath fish, saltwater fish

Part of: family Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontidae

Encyclopedia: Puffer

• thorax
• Thorazine
• Thoreau
• Thoreauvian
• thoria
• thoriate
• thoriated
• thorite
• thorium
• thorium-228
• thorn
• thorn apple
• thorn-tipped
• thornback
• thornbill
• Thorndike
• thorniness
• thornless
• Thornton
• Thornton Niven Wilder
• Thornton Wilder
• thorny
• thorny amaranth
• thorny skate
• thorough