dogfishes

Noun

dogfish (plural dogfish or dogfishes)

1. 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
   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. Scyliorhinus canicula

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