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Cowfish vs Codfish - What's the difference?

cowfish | codfish |

As nouns the difference between cowfish and codfish

is that cowfish is any of various types of boxfish, family ostraciidae while codfish is (countable) a cod (the fish ).

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)

    codfish

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A cod (the fish ).
  • (uncountable) The flesh of the cod as food.