squaloid

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adjective

Characteristic of a shark or dogfish

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Meanings

adjectivesqualoid (comparative more squaloid, superlative most squaloid)

comparative more squaloid · superlative most squaloid

  1. Characteristic of a shark or dogfish

    The old man cracked a squaloid smile full of toothblack and breakfast scraps.

    1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 169
nounsqualoid (plural squaloids)

plural squaloids

  1. Any dogfish (family Squalidae).

    Several species of squaloids have light-emitting organs, but none can glow as brightly as the monotypical Isistius brasiliensis.

    1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 136

Origin

From Latin squālus (“a large sea fish; a shark”) + English -oid.

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