fugu
- n a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous
- By contrast, fugu poison, which has almost the same effect, is always present in the sex organs and liver of Japanese puffer fish.
- Every year a number of Japanese suffer Botanist Davis tetrodotoxin poisoning as a result of eating incorrectly prepared puffer fish, the great delicacy fugu.
- And there was the fugu the poisonous blowfish delicacy that can cost your life if prepared incorrectly, and which can cost you $50 or more when ordered at a restaurant.