COWFISH (cowfishes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cowfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cowfish mean? 

• COWFISH (noun)
  The noun COWFISH has 1 sense:

1. trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes

  Familiarity information: COWFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COWFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cowfish; Lactophrys quadricornis

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)