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[kou-fish] Pronunciation Key
[kou-fish] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural (especially collectively) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish·es.
) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish·es. | 1. | any of several marine fishes having hornlike projections over the eyes, esp. a trunkfish, Lactophrys guadricornus, found in the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 2. | a sirenian, as the manatee. |
| 3. | any of various small cetaceans, as a porpoise or dolphin or the grampus, Grampus griseus. |
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| cow·fish
(kou'fĭsh') Pronunciation Key
n. pl. cowfish or cow·fish·es
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Cowfish
Cow"fish`\ (-f?ch`), n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The grampus. (b) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii). (c) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.
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