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globefish

noun

Etymology

From globe + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. formed as globefish — “globe + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of many marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae, especially the puffer or sunfish,…

    Any of many marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae, especially the puffer or sunfish, that can inflate itself to form a globe.

    • Fugu, the blowfish or globefish, offers taste, health and adventure in every bite.
    • Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for globefish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA