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ˈcow-fish
[cow n.1]
1. The sea-cow or manatee.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 212 (Mauritius) The Mannatee or cow-fish for taste and shape can pose both feeders and beholders. 1853A. R. Wallace Trav. Amazon xvii. 512 Their food is entirely produced by the river, consisting of the Manatus, or cow-fish, which is as good as beef.
2. A dolphin, porpoise, or grampus.
1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 212 Shoals of cowfish..played their uncouth gambols.
3. A fish, Ostracion quadricorne, of the Indian and American seas, having the head and body covered with plates of bone closely united, and two strong spines like horns over the eyes.
1870Amer. Naturalist III. 467 The odd-looking trigonal Trunk-fish (Lactophrys camelinus De Kay), sometimes called Cow-fish, a profile view of the head much resembling that of a cow. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 407 The beautifully coloured ‘cow-fish’..with an expression of face exactly resembling that of a very benignant cow, horns and all. 1885C. F. Holder Marvels Anim. Life 84, I noticed several small cow-fishes come out of a hole.
4. (See quots.)
1808Jamieson, Cowfish, a name commonly applied to Mactra lutraria, Mya arenaria, or any other large oval shell-fish, Orkney. 1866T. Edmondston Gloss. Shetl. & Orkney Dial., Koo-fish, a species of shell-fish, the ‘Venous’; isl. kúskel. |