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cowfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.20 in modern English

Syllables
cow-fish
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.

noun

A grampus (Grampus griseus), Risso's dolphin.

noun

A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii.

noun

A marine plectognath fish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.

noun

A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)

Etymology

From cow + fish.

Inflected Forms

cowfishes (plural)

Phrases

striped cowfish scrawled cowfish

Synonyms

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

Questions

What does cowfish mean?
Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
Where does cowfish come from?
From cow + fish.

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