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US
/ˈbɫoʊfɪʃ/
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[ UK /blˈəʊfɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /blˈəʊfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
- delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
- 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
How To Use blowfish In A Sentence
- And from belugas to blowfish, the world's largest aquarium has it all.
- I didn't think it was possible for Shanna to look like she swallowed a blowfish.
- He's a great guy, and he's promised to show me how to cook blowfish.
- What exactly makes a particular blowfish the best?
- What it is: One of a family of marine or estuarine fish known as Tetraodontidae whichincludesmany familiar species variously called puffers, puffer fish, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish and toadfish. The Best Stuff on Earth?!
- A Cook's Tour, Bourdain travels the world sampling local cuisines such as fugu, the poisonous blowfish delicacy prepared only by specially licensed Japanese chefs, or haggis, that Scottish dish made from various sheep parts and oatmeal, which he describes as "glorious ... peppery, hot and meaty. The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
- My classmates were as unastonished by their extravagant traits as a blowfish is by its quills. Middlesex
- The tropical marine blowfish, which can grossly distend its spiny body into globular form, thereby terrifying confused predators.
- And from belugas to blowfish, the world's largest aquarium has it all.
- Even the unlucky fisher who caught the most blowfish was rewarded at a family fishing event on the weekend.
