dogfish

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English

4 chain dogfish (Scyliorhinus retifer)

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Etymology

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.

Noun

dogfish (plural dogfish or dogfishes)

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

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Derived terms

terms derived from dogfish

Translations

shark in family Dalatidae — see kitefin shark
shark in family Scyliorhinidae — see catshark
bowfin — see bowfin

See also

Further reading

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