3 harsh and threatening in manner or appearance the fierce faces of the players on the opposing hockey team Synonyms austere, dour, grim, flinty, forbidding, gruff, intimidating, lowering (also louring), rough, rugged, severe, stark, steely, stern, ungentleRelated Words bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympathetic; adamant ...
Puffer fish from all other sources potentially contain deadly toxins and therefore are not considered safe. The liver, gonads (ovaries and testes), intestines, and skin of some puffer fish contain the toxins tetrodotoxin and/or saxitoxin.
Puffer Fish. Fugu rubripes âThe human body's genetic make-up is surprisingly similar to that of the puffer fish.â BBC News â For the bits that count it's extraordinary how similar we areâ¦When we compare stretches of the human genome with the Fugu rubripes genome, only small pieces look alike. These are the genes.â