Home / Dictionary / Blowfish

Blowfish Common

Blowfish has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
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

3

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.

Proper Noun
1

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

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
saltwater fish plectognath
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
fugu
Rhyming Words
ish hish lish tish mish eish rish nish dish bish pish fish kish aish wish gish irish ajish ilish swish
Compare
Blowfish vs