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Boxfish vs Cowfish - What's the difference?

boxfish | cowfish |

As nouns the difference between boxfish and cowfish

is that boxfish is any of the family Ostraciidae of squared, bony fish, closely related to the pufferfish and filefish while cowfish is any of various types of boxfish, family Ostraciidae.

boxfish

English

(wikipedia boxfish) (Ostraciidae) (Ostraciidae)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of the family Ostraciidae of squared, bony fish, closely related to the pufferfish and filefish.

    • cowfish

    English

    (wikipedia cowfish) (Ostraciidae) (wikipedia, Risso's dolphin) (Common bottlenose dolphin) (Scrawled cowfish)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of various types of boxfish, family Ostraciidae.
  • The grampus, , (vern, Risso's dolphin).
  • A (common bottlenose dolphin) of California, .
  • A marine plectognath fish, and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.

    • Synonyms

    * (Webster 1913)