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COWFISH
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Irregular inflected form: cowfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes
Synonyms:
cowfish; Lactophrys quadricornis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cowfish" is a kind of...):
boxfish; trunkfish (any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates)
Holonyms ("cowfish" is a member of...):
genus Lactophrys; Lactophrys (a genus of Ostraciidae)