dogfish en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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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.
Meanings
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Any of various small sharks
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.
1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
- Any of various small sharks ▸ Especially those from the family Squalidae
- Any of various small sharks ▸ A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
- Any of various small sharks ▸ A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
- (UK) Any of various small sharks ▸ Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
- Any of various small sharks ▸ Scyliorhinus canicula
- (Canada) Any of various small sharks ▸ Squalus suckleyi
- (qualifier:Bermuda) Any of various small sharks ▸ Mustelus canis
- (Barbados) Any of various small sharks ▸ Bodianus rufus
- (Guyana) Any of various small sharks ▸ Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
- (Trinidad-and-Tobago) Any of various small sharks ▸ Ginglymostoma cirratum
- (Namibia) Any of various small sharks ▸ Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
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(US) The bowfin, Amia calva.
Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dogfishes | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| dog-fish | alternative | lexicographic | |
| dogfish | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
whitefin dogfish · chain dogfish · sparsetooth dogfish · birdbeak dogfish · combtooth dogfish · Portuguese dogfish · rasptooth dogfish (Etmopterus sheikoi · Japanese velvet dogfish · smooth dogfish · viper dogfish · largespine velvet dogfish · velvet dogfish · southern Mandarin dogfish · knifetooth dogfish · hooktooth dogfish · broadband dogfish · lesser spotted dogfish · arrowhead dogfish · longsnout dogfish · Cuban dogfish · southern dogfish · greater spotted dogfish · shortnose velvet dogfish · Azores dogfish · bareskin dogfish · mandarin dogfish · Plunket's dogfish (Centroscymnus plunketi · granular dogfish · prickly dogfish · dogfish orientalis · Taiwanese dogfish · Harrison's dogfish · roughskin dogfish · black dogfish · sherwood dogfish · rough longnose shark · whitetail dogfish · spiny dogfish · ornate dogfish · highfin dogfish · dogfish shark · needle dogfish · longnose velvet dogfish · deepwater spiny dogfish
Synonyms
Translations (19)
pl koleń (shark in family Squalidae) · nuk yačaa (shark in family Squalidae) · grc γαλεός (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families) · it pescecane (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families) · pt cação (small shark) · de Dornhaiartige (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families) · pt esqualídeo (shark in family Squalidae) · ota كوپك بالغی (small shark) · grc σκύλιον (shark in family Squalidae) · fi piikkihai (shark in family Squalidae) · pt galhudo (shark in family Squalidae) · de Dornhai (shark in family Squalidae) · pt cação (shark in family Squalidae) · pl rekinek (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families) · tl bilingbiling (shark in family Squalidae) · es cazón (small shark) · pt cação (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families) · ga fíogach (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families) · pl rekinek (small shark)