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
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blowfish::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | globefish, puffer, pufferfish |
| Type of | plectognath, plectognath fish |
blowfish::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | puffer, pufferfish, sea squab |
| Type of | saltwater fish |
| Has types | fugu |
Examples of blowfish
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In another, fish wiggle, crabs scuttle and blowfish expand with a tap of the keys.
From the usatoday.com
Aunt Cilla, Mama's sister, looked like a puffy blowfish version of my mother.
From the denverpost.com
The piers have had good runs of black drum, spots, blowfish and sea mullet.
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The blowfish, known here as fugu, carries a deadly neurotoxin with no known antidote.
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The market also auctions shellfish, blowfish and fresh, unfrozen tuna.
From the nzherald.co.nz
When threatened, Denobulans can inflate their heads like blowfish to scare off predators.
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One of Horton's students, Katie, looks like the love child of an Easter Peep and a blowfish.
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Saturday's episode starts with a blowfish driving a sports car.
From the sacbee.com
Unless you're deliberately after a plate of poisonous blowfish.
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- Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
- Puffer: 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
- Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the Tetraodontiformes order. The family includes many familiar species which are variously called pufferfish, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish, toadies, honey toads, and sea squab. ...
- Blowfish is a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier and included in a large number of cipher suites and encryption products. Blowfish provides a good encryption rate in software and no effective cryptanalysis of it has been found to date. ...
- Blowfish is an online sex toy catalog offering erotic toys, books, supplies and videos.
- The Blowfish is the satirical newspaper on the Brandeis campus. It began as a supplement in The Hoot, but became an independent newspaper by its second edition on January 27, 2006. ...
- Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened; : A delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins
- If you've ever seen a picture of a blowfish then I am sure you too are wondering why in 1993 Bruce Schneier decided to call his symmetric encryption algorithm "Blowfish". We still don't have the answer to that one...
- This is a freeware symmetric encryption algorithm by Bruce Schneier.
