dogfish
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
Any of various small sharks
The bowfin, Amia calva.
- Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
The neighborhood
- synonymseadog
- neighbordog salmon
- neighborcatfish
- neighborflake
- neighborsmooth hound
- neighborwaterdog
Derived
arrowhead dogfish, Azores dogfish, bareskin dogfish, birdbeak dogfish, black dogfish, broadband dogfish, chain dogfish, combtooth dogfish, Cuban dogfish, deepwater spiny dogfish, dogfish orientalis, dogfish shark, granular dogfish, greater spotted dogfish, Harrison's dogfish, highfin dogfish, hooktooth dogfish, Japanese velvet dogfish, knifetooth dogfish, largespine velvet dogfish, lesser spotted dogfish, longnose velvet dogfish, longsnout dogfish, mandarin dogfish, needle dogfish, ornate dogfish, Plunket's dogfish (Centroscymnus plunketi, Portuguese dogfish, prickly dogfish, rasptooth dogfish (Etmopterus sheikoi, rough longnose shark, roughskin dogfish, sherwood dogfish, shortnose velvet dogfish, smooth dogfish, southern dogfish, southern Mandarin dogfish, sparsetooth dogfish, spiny dogfish, Taiwanese dogfish · +4 more
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA