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cowish

cowish noun: an umbelliferous plant (Lomatium cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon, USA.

Noun

cowish (uncountable)

  1. An umbelliferous plant (Lomatium cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon, USA.

Adjective

cowish (comparative more cowish, superlative most cowish)

  1. (obsolete) fearful; cowardly
    • It is the cowish terror of his spirit, / That dares not undertake.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. Similar to a cow; cowlike

cowish meaning in Tamil

cowish in Tamil

கோழையான

Forms of cowish

Noun
alternative formcous
Adjective
comparativemore cowish
superlativemost cowish

Origin of cowish

From cow + -ish.

Questions about cowish

What does cowish mean?
Cowish means an umbelliferous plant (Lomatium cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon, USA.
What is cowish in Tamil?
Cowish in Tamil is கோழையான. See Cowish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cowish?
Cowish can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near cowish in the dictionary

  1. cowing
  2. Cowings
  3. cowinner
  4. cowinners
  5. Cowins
  6. cowish
  7. cowitch
  8. cowives
  9. cowjuice
  10. cowkeeper
  11. cowkeepers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowish (page history and authors); cowish (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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