Dogfish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dogfish is a noun meaning Any of various small sharks.
Meaning
Any of various small sharks.
More Meanings
- (US) The bowfin, Amia calva.
Example Sentences
Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
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.
Word Forms
- dogfishes
- dog-fish
Synonyms for dogfish
Depending on context, synonyms include seadog, bowfin, grindle.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include grindle, bowfin, fish, shark, spiny, sharks.
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