Dogfish

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  • noun. Any of various small sharks chiefly of the family Squalidae, often occurring in large schools.
  • noun. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A name of various selachians and fishes belonging to widely distinct families.
  • noun. A name of the menobranchus or mud-puppy, Necturus maculatus, a batrachian reptile.
  • noun. undefined
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.
  • noun. The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.
  • noun. The burbot of Lake Erie.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of various small sharks, especially those from the families Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae, and Squalidae.
  • noun. The bowfin, Amia calva.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America
  • noun. any of several small sharks
    • Word Usage
    "These they called dogfish and nurse and we have citations for those uses back about 100 years before this new fancy shark word."
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    bowfin  burbot  eelpout  
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    bowfin  dogfishes  
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