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puffer fish — noun A globefish • • • Main Entry: ↑puff … Useful english dictionary
puffer fish — any of several species of marine fish of the order Tetraodontidae, which when disturbed can inflate themselves to a spherical shape. Their flesh contains tetrodotoxin and can cause fatal poisoning. Called also puffer … Medical dictionary
puffer fish — Ākēkē, o opu hue, pu uōla i … English-Hawaiian dictionary
puffer poisoning — puffer fish poisoning tetrodotoxism (def. 1) … Medical dictionary
puffer n — Puffer fish see picture … English expressions
Fish plate — This article relates to the type of Greek pottery. For the connection bar used in railways, see Fishplate. A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the Fourth Century B.C. Although invented in Fifth… … Wikipedia
fish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I v. angle; pull out, dredge; solicit; search. See pursuit, desire, fish, food. II Aquatic vertebrate animal Nouns 1. fish, denizen of the deep, Pisces; anadromous, freshwater or saltwater fish, tropical … English dictionary for students
puffer — n. 1 a person or thing that puffs. 2 = puff puff. Phrases and idioms: puffer fish = globe fish … Useful english dictionary
puffer — noun Date: 1629 1. one that puffs 2. puffer fish … New Collegiate Dictionary
puffer — puff·er pəf ər n any of a family (Tetraodontidae) of chiefly tropical marine bony fishes which can distend themselves to a globular form and most of which are highly poisonous called also blowfish, globefish, pufferfish * * * puff·er… … Medical dictionary
