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puff·er
(pŭf′ər)n.
1. One that puffs: a puffer of cigars; used a puffer to apply insecticide.
2. See pufferfish.
3. A quilted, fitted jacket filled with down or other material for warmth.
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puffer
(ˈpʌfə)n
1. a person or thing that puffs
2. (Animals) Also called: globefish any marine plectognath fish of the family Tetraodontidae, having an elongated spiny body that can be inflated to form a globe
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puff•er
(ˈpʌf ər)n.
1. a person or thing that puffs.
2. Also called blowfish, globefish. any of various spiny fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of inflating the body: several species contain the potent nerve poison tetrodotoxin.
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puffer
An alchemist who concentrated solely on turning base metals into gold. The term later came to be used to describe any kind of alchemist.
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| Noun | 1. |  puffer - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liverglobefish, puffer, pufferfish, blowfish - any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food fugu - a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous tetrodotoxin - a powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish |
| 2. |  puffer - any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffersplectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines family Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontidae - puffers blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver |
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フグ河豚鰒
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puffer
n (baby-talk: = train) → Puffpuff f (baby-talk)
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puffer
(fam) V. inhaler.English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.