1. 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
   "The globefish puffed up to twice its normal size when threatened";
   - puffer, pufferfish, blowfish

Derived forms: globefishes

Type of: plectognath, plectognath fish

Part of: family Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontidae

Encyclopedia: Globefish