dogfish

plural dogfishes · alternative dog-fish

1. Any of various small sharks

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   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

   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. UKScyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
   5. Scyliorhinus canicula
   6. CanadaSqualus suckleyi
   7. BermudaMustelus canis
   8. BarbadosBodianus rufus
   9. GuyanaGinglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
   10. Trinidad and TobagoGinglymostoma cirratum
   11. NamibiaSqualus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
2. USThe 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

present singular third person dogfishes · participle present dogfishing · participle past dogfished · past dogfished · alternative dog-fish

1. To engage in dogfishing.