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語源

From cow +‎ fish.

名詞

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.
5. A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)

同意語

• (Acanthostracion quadricornis): cuckold, coffer fish, scrawled cowfish, trunkfish, Ostracion quadricornis, Ostracion tricornis

派生語

• striped cowfish
• scrawled cowfish (Acanthostracion quadricornis)

参照

• “cowfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.