cowfish

English

a cowfish (Grampus griseus)

A cowfish ( )

Etymology

cow +‎ fish

Noun

cowfish (plural cowfishes or cowfish)

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

Synonyms

• (Acanthostracion quadricornis): cuckold, coffer fish, scrawled cowfish, trunkfish, ,

Derived terms

• scrawled cowfish ()

Translations

common bottlenose dolphin

• Maori: terehu
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cowfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)