striped cowfish

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striped cowfish (plural striped cowfish)

  1. A species of boxfish, Aracana aurita.
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 311:
      I had eyes only for the striped cowfish as it slowly moved.