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- 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 pufferfish In A Sentence
- Imagine trying to photograph a large pufferfish with the final frame while an eagle ray circles round your head - much to the amusement of the other divers from the boat.
- Identification of Potential Transcriptional Regulatory Elements by Comparison of Human and Pufferfish Genomic Sequences.
- Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish.
- Corals and Corals and schools of fish meeting schools of fish at more corals, octopus everywhere, lionfishes, stonefishes, nudibranks, a seahorse, tiny cube boxfishes, pufferfishes, corals … it was really hard to see everything, because a) there is so incredible much to see and b) there is fish everywhere. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- A similar fish, the black-spotted pufferfish, does not have the black splash around its mouth and can be found throughout the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia.
- Corals and Corals and schools of fish meeting schools of fish at more corals, octopus everywhere, lionfishes, stonefishes, nudibranks, a seahorse, tiny cube boxfishes, pufferfishes, corals … it was really hard to see everything, because a) there is so incredible much to see and b) there is fish everywhere. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- The pufferfish contains a neurotoxin and, if not prepared properly, can quickly kill a human being who eats it (which, of course, makes it all that much more interesting for thrill seekers).
- A big pufferfish lurked in there and I took its portrait before making my way up to the superstructure, still in the lee of the current.
- Where the boulders meet the sand there are many fish species, including stingrays, parrotfish and pufferfish.
- Some Tetraodonts are square or triangular (boxfishes), others are spherical (pufferfishes), and the filefishes are laterally compressed. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]