dogfish
dogfish noun: any of various small sharks.
Noun
dogfish (plural dogfish or dogfishes)
- 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...1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times
- Especially those from the family Squalidae
- A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
- A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
- Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
- Scyliorhinus canicula
- Squalus suckleyi
- Mustelus canis
- Bodianus rufus
- Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
- Ginglymostoma cirratum
- Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
- The 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
Verb
dogfish (third-person singular simple present dogfishes, present participle dogfishing, simple past and past participle dogfished)
- To engage in dogfishing.
dogfish meaning in Tamil and Tagalog
dogfish in Tamil
- நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்
dogfish in Tagalog
- shark in family Squalidae
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Synonyms of dogfish
Forms of dogfish
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dogfish |
| plural | dogfishes |
| alternative form | dog-fish |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | dogfishes |
| present participle | dogfishing |
| past participle | dogfished |
| past | dogfished |
Origin of dogfish
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.
Words formed from dogfish
- 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
- velvet dogfish
- viper dogfish
- whitetail dogfish
- whitefin dogfish
Phrases with dogfish
Questions about dogfish
- What does dogfish mean?
- Dogfish means any of various small sharks.
- What is dogfish in Tamil?
- Dogfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Dogfish meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dogfish?
- Dogfish can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of dogfish?
- The plural of dogfish is dogfish.
Words near dogfish in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dogfish (page history and authors); dogfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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