blowfish
see also: Blowfish
Noun
Blowfish
Proper noun
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see also: Blowfish
Noun
blowfish (plural blowfish)
- 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.
- A delicacy popular in Japan, consisting of the fish served raw as sushi or perhaps fried. It may, if improperly prepared, contain considerably deadly levels of neurotoxins.
- (fish) balloonfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish, swellfish
- (food) fugu
- French: poisson ballon, poisson globe
- German: Kugelfisch
- Italian: pesce palla
- Portuguese: baiacu, peixe-balão, fugu
- Russian: иглобрю́хая ры́ба
- Spanish: pez globo
- Portuguese: fugu
- Russian: фу́гу
Blowfish
Proper noun
- (computing) A symmetric block cipher encryption algorithm used in modern cryptographic software, designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993.
- Twofish
- Threefish
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