Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver; SYN. sea squab, puffer.
1. Any of a family (Tetraodontidae) of chiefly tropical scaleless marine bony fishes which can distend themselves to a globular form and most of which are highly poisonous — called also blowfish, globefish, swellfish — compare FUGU.
2. Any of various fish of the same order (Tetraodontiformes) as the puffer fish.

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