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n. - Trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes.

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  • A cowfish, a triggerfish, the harlequin Picasso fish, a drifting sponge—all these lives were being lived out, every day, as they always had been.
  • I do not know what species they were — cowfish, the Jebeans called them — but they were a salmon hue, with many-rayed dorsal fins and small heads.
  • The opening page for Reference has a featured article from Wikipedia - today it's about the Longhorn cowfish, October 20 in History (US history), People in the news...
  • A dead cowfish floats in a jar, posing for Fuller as she sculpts a model into clay.
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