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blowfish

UK/ˈbləʊˌfɪʃ//ˈbloʊˌfɪʃ/

blowfish noun: 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.

blowfish: any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a...
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Noun

blowfish (plural blowfish or blowfishes)

  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.
    • Where the waves wish-wash, and the foghorn blows, And the blowfish nibble at your toes - oes - oes, The blowfish nibble at your toes.1945, Harold Wallace Ross, William Shawn, Tina Brown, The New Yorker - Volume 21, Issues 21-37, page 20
  2. A delicacy popular in Japan, consisting of the fish served raw as sushi or perhaps fried. It may, if improperly prepared, contain considerably deadly levels of neurotoxins.
    • Fugu, the blowfish or globefish, offers taste, health and adventure in every bite.1981 November 29, Steve Lohr, “ONE MAN'S FUGU IS ANOTHER'S POISON”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021

Proper noun capitalized: Blowfish

Blowfish

  1. A symmetric block cipher encryption algorithm used in modern cryptographic software, designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993.

blowfish meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Malay

blowfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

blowfish in Tagalog

any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe
butete

blowfish in Arabic

any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe
أَسْمَاك بَالُون ʔasmāk bālūn

blowfish in Malay

any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe
buntal, ikan buntal
More languagesFewer languages
blowfish in Indonesian
buntal
blowfish in Thai
ปักเป้า bpàk-gà-bpâo
blowfish in Vietnamese
cá bóng, cá nóc
Dhivehi
ކޮލި އާއިލާ koli āilā

Synonyms of blowfish

All synonyms of blowfish

Forms of blowfish

pluralblowfish
pluralblowfishes

Plural of blowfish: blowfish or blowfishes

Origin of blowfish

From blow + fish.

Questions about blowfish

What does blowfish mean?
Blowfish means 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.
What is blowfish in Tamil?
Blowfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Blowfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is blowfish?
Blowfish can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce blowfish?
Blowfish is pronounced /ˈbloʊˌfɪʃ/ (US).
What is the plural of blowfish?
The plural of blowfish is blowfish.

Words near blowfish in the dictionary

  1. blowers
  2. Blowers Green
  3. blowes
  4. blowest
  5. bloweth
  6. blowfish
  7. blowfishes
  8. blowflies
  9. blowfly
  10. blowgun
  11. blowguns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blowfish (page history and authors); Blowfish (page history and authors); blowfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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