| pufferfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver. |
| ~ globefish, blowfish, puffer, pufferfish | 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. |
| n. (animal) | 2. blowfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish | 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. |
| ~ plectognath, 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. |
| gall | | |
| n. (state) | 1. gall, saddle sore | an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle. |
| ~ animal disease | a disease that typically does not affect human beings. |
| n. (state) | 2. gall | a skin sore caused by chafing. |
| ~ sore | an open skin infection. |
| ~ saddle sore | sore on a horseback rider chafed by a saddle. |
| n. (plant) | 3. gall | abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury. |
| ~ plant tissue | the tissue of a plant. |
| ~ oak apple | oak gall caused by larvae of a cynipid wasp. |
| n. (feeling) | 4. bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour, resentment | a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. |
| ~ ill will, enmity, hostility | the feeling of a hostile person.; "he could no longer contain his hostility" |
| ~ heartburning | intense resentment.; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals" |
| ~ huffishness, sulkiness | a feeling of sulky resentment. |
| ~ grievance, grudge, score | a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation.; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" |
| ~ enviousness, envy | a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another. |
| n. (body) | 5. bile, gall | a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats. |
| ~ digestive fluid, digestive juice | secretions that aid digestion. |
| n. (attribute) | 6. cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence | the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties. |
| ~ rudeness, discourtesy | a manner that is rude and insulting. |
| ~ chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah | (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity. |
| v. (perception) | 7. chafe, fret, gall | become or make sore by or as if by rubbing. |
| ~ irritate | excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame.; "Aspirin irritates my stomach" |
| v. (emotion) | 8. gall, irk | irritate or vex.; "It galls me that we lost the suit" |
| ~ anger | make angry.; "The news angered him" |
| gall bladder | | |
| n. (body) | 1. gall bladder, gallbladder | a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion. |
| ~ bladder, vesica | a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas). |
| ~ chest, pectus, thorax | the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. |
| gallbladder | | |
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