dogfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogfish
form: dogfishes
form: dog-fish
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: 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 marketability, has renamed cape shark.
ref: 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of various small sharks
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Especially those from the family Squalidae
glosses: Any of various small sharks
A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
glosses: Any of various small sharks
A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Scyliorhinus canicula
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Squalus suckleyi
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Mustelus canis
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Bodianus rufus
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Ginglymostoma cirratum
glosses: Any of various small sharks
Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
examples: text: Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
ref: 1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: The bowfin, Amia calva.
Synonyms: seadog
Derived terms: taxonomic: Deania profundorum
word: arrowhead dogfish
alt: Scymnodalatias garricki
word: Azores dogfish
taxonomic: Centroscyllium kamoharai
word: bareskin dogfish
taxonomic: Deania calcea
word: birdbeak dogfish
taxonomic: Centroscyllium fabricii
word: black dogfish
taxonomic: Etmopterus gracilispinis
word: broadband dogfish
taxonomic: Scyliorhinus retifer
word: chain dogfish
taxonomic: Centroscyllium nigrum
word: combtooth dogfish
taxonomic: Squalus cubensis
word: Cuban dogfish
taxonomic: Centrophorus squamosus
word: deepwater spiny dogfish
english: a grunt native to coral reefs of the western Pacific Ocean
translation: a grunt native to coral reefs of the western Pacific Ocean
taxonomic: Plectorhinchus lineatus
word: dogfish orientalis
word: dogfish shark
taxonomic: Centroscyllium granulatum
word: granular dogfish
taxonomic: Scyliorhinus stellaris
word: greater spotted dogfish
taxonomic: Centrophorus harrissoni
word: Harrison's dogfish
taxonomic: Centroscyllium excelsum
word: highfin dogfish
taxonomic: Aculeola nigra
word: hooktooth dogfish
alt: Zameus ichiharai
word: Japanese velvet dogfish
alt: Scymnodon ringens
word: knifetooth dogfish
alt: Proscymnodon macracanthus
word: largespine velvet dogfish
taxonomic: Scyliorhinus canicula
word: lesser spotted dogfish
taxonomic: Centroselachus crepidater
word: longnose velvet dogfish
taxonomic: Deania quadrispinosa
word: longsnout dogfish
taxonomic: Cirrhigaleus barbifer
word: mandarin dogfish
taxonomic: Centrophorus granulosus
word: needle dogfish
taxonomic: Centroscyllium ornatum
word: ornate dogfish
word: Plunket's dogfish (Centroscymnus plunketi
taxonomic: Centroscymnus coelolepis
word: Portuguese dogfish
taxonomic: Oxynotus bruniensis
word: prickly dogfish
english: alternately known as Miroscyllium sheikoi
translation: alternately known as Miroscyllium sheikoi
word: rasptooth dogfish (Etmopterus sheikoi
taxonomic: Deania hystricosa
word: rough longnose shark
taxonomic: Centroscymnus owstonii
word: roughskin dogfish
alt: Scymnodalatias sherwoodi
word: sherwood dogfish
taxonomic: Centroscymnus owstonii
word: shortnose velvet dogfish
taxonomic: Mustelus canis
word: smooth dogfish
taxonomic: Centrophorus zeehaani
word: southern dogfish
taxonomic: Cirrhigaleus australis
word: southern Mandarin dogfish
alt: Scymnodalatias oligodon
word: sparsetooth dogfish
taxonomic: Squalus acanthias
word: spiny dogfish
taxonomic: Squalus formosus
word: Taiwanese dogfish
alt: Zameus squamulosus
word: velvet dogfish
alt: Trigonognathus kabeyai
word: viper dogfish
alt: Scymnodalatias albicauda
word: whitetail dogfish
taxonomic: Centroscyllium ritteri
word: whitefin dogfish
Related terms: english: salmon family
translation: salmon family
taxonomic: Oncorhynchus keta
word: dog salmon
word: catfish
word: flake
english: sharks in genus Mustelus
translation: sharks in genus Mustelus
word: smooth hound
word: waterdog