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Primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin
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dogfish
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Boats heading out past the Needles found just odd cod along with a few whiting, rays, pout and dogfish . ▪ Burnham boat anglers enjoyed good sport with cod and a few dogfish and rays. ▪ Chesil Beach gave dabs, pout and small ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Houndfish \Hound"fish\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus , of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish ( Galeus canis ), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark , and dogfish . Note: The European nursehound, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a name for various types of small shark, late 15c., dokefyche , from dog (n.) + fish (n.). Said to be so called because they hunt in packs. This was the image of sharks in classical antiquity as well.\n\nBut in the Mediterranean, among the Greeks and Romans ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America [syn: bowfin , grindle , Amia calva ] any of several small sharks [also: dogfishes (pl)]
Usage examples of dogfish.
Straightforward dissections of the earthworm, the frog, the afferent and efferent systems of the dogfish, that kind of thing.
And pulling hooks off the bottom, replacing hooks after dogfish swallowed them, untangling snarls, and fixing all the other minor disasters that came while learning how to catch bottom fish.
This was followed by a dogfish shark, with huge, milky, sightless eyes resembling headlamps.