Definition of Cowfishes

1. Noun. (plural of cowfish) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cowfishes

1. cowfish [n] - See also: cowfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowfishes

cowcatchers
cowcumber
cowcumbers
cowden syndrome
cowdriosis
cowed
cowedly
cowen
cower
cowered
cowering
coweringly
cowers
cowfish
cowfishes (current term)
cowflap
cowflaps
cowflesh
cowflop
cowflops
cowgirl
cowgirled
cowgirling
cowgirls
cowhage
cowhages
cowhand

Literary usage of Cowfishes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... or absence of spines on the bony shell. In some species, called cuck- BEI .'•'• vi olds, or cowfishes, long horns are developed |;i':* "•vA *•"*' . ..."

2. The Log of a Sea Angler: Sport and Adventures in Many Seas with Spear and Rod by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"... and in shallower water, where I could reach down and touch the coral, I induced small cowfishes and porcupines to approach and swim through my fingers. ..."

3. The Log of a Sea Angler: Sport and Adventures in Many Seas with Spear and Rod by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"... plumes, and gorgonias occupied the exterior, where scores of angel fishes swam about with porcupine and cowfishes, the gray snapper, and many more. ..."

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