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Puffer

noun

Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver. Synonyms: blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab.

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. Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, pufferfish.

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"Puffer" Quotes from Famous Books

... snuffer, Though no puffer, You may guess what pangs he'd suffer In his journey through a snow-drift, Visiting ...

— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings

... carried at once to his room and Dr. Puffer, the eminent surgeon was sent for. It was found that he was shot through the breast and through the abdomen. Other aid was summoned, but the wounds were mortal, and Col Selby expired in an hour, in pain, but his mind was clear to the ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... fish—among them that constant delight of the landsman, the puffer, which, when disturbed, rapidly inflates itself, rising to the surface of the water until it becomes apparently so large a mouthful that its would-be devourer is fooled into believing the morsel too big ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Words linked to "Puffer" : family Tetraodontidae, blowfish, Tetraodontidae, sea squab, tetrodotoxin, fugu, plectognath, puff, pufferfish, saltwater fish, plectognath fish