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Definition: Globefish |
GlobefishNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GlobefishSynonyms: blowfish (n), puffer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Globefish |
| English words defined with "globefish": Balloon fish ♦ Gymnodont ♦ Porcupine fish ♦ Sea-orb. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "globefish": Tetrodotoxin. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
globefish | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "globefish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 鮐 . (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 河豚 (blow fish, fugu, puffer fish, swellfish). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふぐ (blow fish, cripple, deformity, disability, distortion, emergency, fugu, puffer fish, swellfish). (various references) | |
Manx | pandoogheyder marrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obefishglay.(various references) | |
Thai | ปลาปักเป้า, ปักเป้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | kirpi balığı (porcupine fish, puffer), fahaka. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "globefish": globefishes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-g-h-i-l-o-s" | |
-2 letters: bolshie, foibles, obliges. | |
-3 letters: befogs, bilges, bogies, bogles, elfish, filose, fogies, foible, globes, gobies, helios, holies, isohel, oblige, sleigh. | |
-4 letters: befog, biles, bilge, bogie, bogle, boils, boles, files, filos, flesh, flies, floes, flogs, fogie, foils, gibes, globe, globs, golfs, heils, helio, helos, hoise, holes, hosel, lobes, loges, obeli, ogles, shelf, sheol, shiel, solei. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-f-g-h-i-l-o-s" | |
+2 letters: globefishes. | |
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