different between grampus vs cowfish

English

Etymology

From Middle English *grampas, grappays, grapas, graspeys, from Anglo-Norman grampais, Old French graspois, craspois (“whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal”), from Medieval Latin craspicis (literally “fat fish”), from Latin crassus (“fat”) + piscis (“fish”).

Noun

grampus (plural grampuses)

1. The killer whale, Orcinus orca.
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 3:

     Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.
2. Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus, with a blunt nose.
3. The hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.
4. giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)

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References

• Killer whale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Risso's dolphin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hellbender on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Orcinus orca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Grampus griseus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Etymology

cow +? fish

Noun

cowfish (plural cowfishes or cowfish)

1. Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae.
2. The grampus, Grampus griseus, Risso's dolphin.
3. A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii.
4. A marine plectognath fish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.
5. A common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus)

Synonyms

• (Acanthostracion quadricornis): cuckold, coffer fish, scrawled cowfish, trunkfish, Ostracion quadricornis, Ostracion tricornis

Derived terms

• scrawled cowfish (Acanthostracion quadricornis)

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