cowfish

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cowfish

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noun cowfishes · cowfish

Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
A grampus (Grampus griseus), Risso's dolphin.
A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii.
A marine plectognath fish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.
Similar: cuckold, coffer fish, scrawled cowfish, trunkfish, Ostracion quadricornis, Ostracion tricornis
A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)

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noun common bottlenose dolphin

Deutsch	Kuhfisch

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@misc{cowfish_2026,
  title = {cowfish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cowfish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}