dogfish
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dogfish
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From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages.
noun dogfish · dogfishes · dog-fish
- Any of various small sharks Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their m
- Especially those from the family Squalidae
- A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
- A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
- Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
- Scyliorhinus canicula
- Squalus suckleyi
- Mustelus canis
- Bodianus rufus
- Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
- Ginglymostoma cirratum
- Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
- The bowfin, Amia calva. Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
Similar: cur fish
verb dogfishes · dogfishing · dogfished · dog-fish
- To engage in dogfishing.
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Similar: cur fish
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noun small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families
| Português | cação |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Dornhaiartige |
| Italiano | pescecane |
noun shark in family Squalidae
| Português | galhudo, esqualídeo, cação |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Dornhai |
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