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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes [syn: cowfish, Lactophrys quadricornis]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1870 any of various small bright-colored bony fishes (family Ostraciidae) with hornlike projections over the eyes

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Grampus Gram"pus, n.; pl. Grampuses. [Probably corrupted from It. gran pesce great fish, or Sp. gran pez, or Pg. gran peixe, all fr. L. grandis piscis. See Grand, and Fish. the animal.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii. 2. A kind of tongs used in a bloomery. [U.S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.