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cowfish

cowfish noun: any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.

cowfish: any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae
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Noun

cowfish (plural cowfishes or cowfish)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    cuckold, coffer fish, scrawled cowfish, trunkfish, Ostracion quadricornis, Ostracion tricornis
  5. A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)

cowfish meaning in Tamil

cowfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of cowfish

  • cuckold
  • coffer fish
  • scrawled cowfish
  • trunkfish
  • Ostracion quadricornis
  • Ostracion tricornis

All synonyms of cowfish

Forms of cowfish

pluralcowfishes
pluralcowfish

Origin of cowfish

From cow + fish.

Words formed from cowfish

Questions about cowfish

What does cowfish mean?
Cowfish means any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
What is cowfish in Tamil?
Cowfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Cowfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cowfish?
Cowfish is a noun.
What is the plural of cowfish?
The plural of cowfish is cowfishes.

Words near cowfish in the dictionary

  1. Cowey
  2. cowfeeder
  3. cowfeeders
  4. cowfinch
  5. cowfinches
  6. cowfish
  7. cowfishes
  8. cowflap
  9. cowflaps
  10. cowflesh
  11. cowflop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowfish (page history and authors); cowfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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