Meaning of Dogfish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various small sharks
2. Especially those from the family Squalidae
3. A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
4. A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
5. Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
   UK
6. Scyliorhinus canicula
7. Squalus suckleyi
   Canada
8. Mustelus canis
9. Bodianus rufus
   Barbados
10. Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
    Guyana
11. Ginglymostoma cirratum
    Trinidad-and-Tobago
12. Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
    Namibia
13. The bowfin, Amia calva.
    US

Equivalents

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.”

“Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live⟳ in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.”

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