Definition of fugu
: any of various very poisonous puffer fishes (family Tetraodontidae) that contain tetrodotoxin and that are used as food in Japan after the toxin-containing parts are removed
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Last year, a warm winter led to smaller and more scarce fugu.
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Nippon sends it out with chives and a spicy daikon mash, which complement its quiet flavor, and cooked fragments of fugu, which don’t.
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Unlike fugu, Japan’s riskiest delicacy, lionfish is harmless.
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Tiger blowfish is supposed to be the most delicious kind of fugu.
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The five packets of fugu that triggered the alarm in Gamagori were sold with their livers still in place, Agence France-Presse reports.
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Pufferfish, or fugu, is an expensive delicacy often served in the form of paper-thin sashimi slices.
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Search [fugu poison] to find that the poison is tetrodotoxin, aka TTX or tetrodox, and is found primarily in the liver of the puffer fish.
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Origin and Etymology of fugu
Japanese
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medical Definition of fugu
: any of various very poisonous puffer fish that contain tetrodotoxin and that are used as food in Japan after the toxin-containing organs are removed
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