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cowfish en · NOUN

Etymology

From cow + fish.

Meanings

  1. Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
  2. A 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)

Forms

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cowfish Number=Plur lexicographic
cowfishes Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

scrawled cowfish · striped cowfish

Synonyms

Ostracion tricornis (Acanthostracion quadricornis) · scrawled cowfish (Acanthostracion quadricornis) · trunkfish (Acanthostracion quadricornis) · coffer fish (Acanthostracion quadricornis) · cuckold (Acanthostracion quadricornis) · Ostracion quadricornis (Acanthostracion quadricornis)

Translations (3)

pl butlonos zwyczajny (common bottlenose dolphin) · mi terehu (common bottlenose dolphin) · de Kuhfisch (common bottlenose dolphin)