dog·fish

(dôg′fĭsh′, dŏg′-)

n. pl. dogfish or dog·fish·es

1. Any of various small sharks chiefly of the family Squalidae, often occurring in large schools.

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dogfish

(ˈdɒɡˌfɪʃ)

n, pl -fish or -fishes

1. (Animals) any of several small spotted European sharks, esp Scyliorhinus caniculus (lesser spotted dogfish): family Scyliorhinidae

2. (Animals) any small shark of the family Squalidae, esp Squalus acanthias (spiny dogfish), typically having a spine on each dorsal fin

3. (Animals) any small smooth-skinned shark of the family Triakidae, esp Mustelus canis (smooth dogfish or smooth hound)

4. (Animals) a less common name for the bowfin

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dog•fish

(ˈdɔgˌfɪʃ, ˈdɒg-)

n., pl. (esp. collectively) -fish, (esp. for kinds or species) -fish•es.

1. any of several small sharks, esp. of the genera Mustelus and Squalus, that are destructive to food fishes.

2. any of various other fishes, as the bowfin.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	dogfish - primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America Amia calva, bowfin, grindle ganoid, ganoid fish - primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering Amia, genus Amia - type genus of the Amiidae
	2.	dogfish - any of several small sharks shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales smooth dogfish - small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts spiny dogfish - small bottom-dwelling dogfishes

Translations

gatto di mare piccolo squalo

dogfish

[ˈdɒgfɪʃ] N (dogfish or dogfishes (pl)) → perro m marino, cazón m

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dogfish

[ˈdɒgfɪʃ] n → roussette fdog food n → nourriture f pour chiens

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She has twelve mis-shapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length; and at the end of each neck she has a frightful head with three rows of teeth in each, all set very close together, so that they would crunch any one to death in a moment, and she sits deep within her shady cell thrusting out her heads and peering all round the rock, fishing for dolphins or dogfish or any larger monster that she can catch, of the thousands with which Amphitrite teems.

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After a slow start, the fish came on the feed with the in-coming tide where the hard-fighting smooth hounds dominated the catches, In first place with four hounds and five dogfish was Roy Tapper with 38 points.

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But nothing could prepare Adam Todd for what he found - a small dogfish - a sub-species of the shark family.

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Staff were thrilled when they saw their lesser spotted dogfish laying eggs over Easter.

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Staff at Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth were thrilled when they saw their Lesser Spotted Dogfish laying eggs.

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The velvet dogfish (Zameus squamulosus) is a dark, nondescript shark species with a wide distribution along the margins of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian ocean basins and at a number of insular regions, including the Canary Islands, Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand, Okinawa, and Palau (Compagno, 1984; Taniuchi and Garrick, 1986; Yano and Kugai, 1993; Wetherbee and Crow, 1996; Pajuelo et al., 2010).

Vertical distribution, diet, and reproduction of the velvet dogfish (Zameus squamulosus) in waters off Hawaii

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Male and female spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias were collected in the North Aegean Sea from Saros Bay between February 2005 and September 2008.

Age and Growth of Spiny Dogfish Squalus acanthias (Squalidae: Chondrichthyes) in the North Aegean Sea

In this region, North Pacific Spiny Dogfish (Squalus suckleyi Girard 1854; Ebert and others 2010), hereafter Spiny Dogfish, are currently considered an abundant upper trophic level predator (Harvey and others 2010).

North Pacific Spiny Dogfish (Squalus suckleyi) presence in eelgrass habitat in the Salish Sea, Washington