cowfish

English

a cowfish (Grampus griseus)

Etymology

cow + fish

Noun

cowfish (plural cowfishes or cowfish)

  1. Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
  2. The grampus, Grampus griseus, Risso's dolphin.
  3. A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii.
  4. A marine plectognath fish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.
  5. A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)

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  • cowfish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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