blowfish

• ⇰ a fish eaten as a delicacy, especially in Japan. It is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison (tetrodotoxin) in its ovaries and liver. Chefs require special training to learn how to remove the poisonous parts, and in Japan they must be licens
• ⇰ any of numerous marine fishes of the family <fam>Tetraodontidae</fam> whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain <prod>tetrodotoxin</prod>, a potent nerve poison; they are closely related to sp