pufferfish

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈpʌfɚˌfɪʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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; puffer, blowfish, swellfish, balloonfish, globefish. countable,uncountable
    — Recently, however, a scientist in Britain proposed a short cut that would use the genome of the fugu, a pufferfish known as a dangerous delicacy among Japanese sushi eaters, to speed the search for human genes.
  2. The meat of these fish, a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins; (Japanese) fugu. uncountable

词形变化

pufferfish plural pufferfishes plural

词汇关系

近义词
balloonfish blowfish globefish puffer swellfish fugu

词源

Etymology tree
English puffer
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Germanic *fiskaz
Proto-West Germanic *fisk
Old English fisċ
Middle English fisch
English fish
English pufferfish
From puffer + fish.
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