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Definition of dogfish

13 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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.”
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noun

  1. 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.”
  2. Any of various small sharks
  3. Any of various small sharks
  4. Any of various small sharks
  5. (UK)Any of various small sharks
  6. Any of various small sharks
  7. (Canada)Any of various small sharks
  8. Any of various small sharks
  9. (Barbados)Any of various small sharks
  10. (Guyana)Any of various small sharks
  11. (Trinidad-and-Tobago)Any of various small sharks
  12. (Namibia)Any of various small sharks
  13. (US)The bowfin, Amia calva.
    “Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.”

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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.

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