cowfish

cow·fish

C0707800 (kou′fĭsh′)n. pl. cowfish or cow·fish·es A boxfish of warm coastal waters having hornlike protrusions or spines on the head.

cowfish

(ˈkaʊˌfɪʃ) n, pl -fish or -fishes1. (Animals) any trunkfish, such as Lactophrys quadricornis, having hornlike spines over the eyes2. (Animals) (loosely) any of various large aquatic animals, such as a sea cow

cow•fish

(ˈkaʊˌfɪʃ)

n., pl. (esp. collectively) -fish, (esp. for kinds or species) -fish•es. any of several trunkfishes having hornlike projections over the eyes, esp. Lactophrys guadricornus. [1625–35]

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Noun

cowfish - trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyesLactophrys quadricornisboxfish, trunkfish - any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony platesgenus Lactophrys, Lactophrys - a genus of Ostraciidae

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cowfish

cowfish:

see trunkfishtrunkfish,
any member of a family of fishes, Ostraciidae, also called boxfishes, that have short triangular bodies covered by firmly united hexagonal bony plates. Only the jaw, the bases of the fins, and the tail protrude from this carapace, and the locomotion of these fishes is
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Synonyms for cowfish

noun trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes

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