blowfish
英 ['bləʊfɪʃ]
美
- n. 河豚；黄麻鲈
英英释义
- 1. delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
- 2. 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
英文词源
- blowfish (n.)
- also blow-fish, 1862, American English, from blow (v.1) + fish (n.).
Then he described another odd product of the bay, that was known as the blow-fish, and had the power of inflating himself with air when taken out of the water. ["The Young Nimrods in North America," New York, 1881]
词态变化
复数: blowfish; blowfishes;