cowfishes

Variant of cowfish

cowfish definition

cow·fish (ko̵u′fis̸h′)

noun pl. cowfish -·fish′, cowfishes -·fish′es

  1. a marine dolphin (Tursiops gilli) of the Pacific Ocean
  2. any of the smaller marine whales, as the grampus
  3. any of several trunkfishes with hornlike processes on the head
  4. Rare a dugong or manatee

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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