dogfish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Base: dog
Inflected forms:
form: dogfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dogfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dog-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dogfishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dogfishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dogfished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dogfished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dog-fish
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
tags: Barbados
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
tags: Guyana
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
tags: Trinidad-and-Tobago
gloss: Any of various small sharks
pos: noun
tags: Namibia
gloss: The bowfin, Amia calva.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
gloss: To engage in dogfishing.
pos: verb
Synonyms: cur fish
Derived words: arrowhead dogfish
Azores dogfish
bareskin dogfish
birdbeak dogfish
black dogfish
broadband dogfish
chain dogfish
combtooth dogfish
Cuban dogfish
deepwater spiny dogfish
dogfish orientalis
dogfish shark
granular dogfish
greater spotted dogfish
Harrison's dogfish
highfin dogfish
hooktooth dogfish
Japanese velvet dogfish
knifetooth dogfish
largespine velvet dogfish
lesser spotted dogfish
longnose velvet dogfish
longsnout dogfish
mandarin dogfish
needle dogfish
ornate dogfish
Plunket's dogfish (Centroscymnus plunketi
Portuguese dogfish
prickly dogfish
rasptooth dogfish (Etmopterus sheikoi
rough longnose shark
roughskin dogfish
sherwood dogfish
shortnose velvet dogfish
smooth dogfish
southern dogfish
southern Mandarin dogfish
sparsetooth dogfish
spiny dogfish
Taiwanese dogfish
velvet dogfish
viper dogfish
whitetail dogfish
whitefin dogfish
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: rekinek
lang: Portuguese
word: cação
lang: Spanish
word: cazón
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كوپك بالغی
roman: köpek balığı
lang: German
word: Dornhaiartige
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γαλεός
roman: galeós
lang: Irish
word: fíogach
lang: Italian
word: pescecane
lang: Polish
word: rekinek
lang: Portuguese
word: cação