Dogfish - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Dogfish : (noun)
1: primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America [syn: bowfin, grindle, Amia calva]
2: any of several small sharks

Based on WordNet 2.0

Roussette \Rous*sette"\, n. [F.; -- so called in allusion to the color. See Russet.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A fruit bat, especially the large species ({Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; --
called also dogfish. See Dogfish.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Amia \Am"i*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a kind of tunny.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Dogfish : \Dog"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

Note: The European spotted dogfishes ({Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked, or horned dogfish ({Squalus acanthias) abundant on both sides of the Atlantic.

2. The bowfin ({Amia calva). See Bowfin.

3. The burbot of Lake Erie.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Bowfin \Bow"fin`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A voracious ganoid fish ({Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Houndfish \Hound"fish\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish ({G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.

Note: The European nursehound, or small-spotted dogfish, is Scyllium canicula; the rough houndfish, or large-spotted dogfish, is S. catulus. The name has also sometimes been applied to the bluefish ({Pomatomus saltatrix), and to the silver gar.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Dogfish - Dictionary Definition and Overview

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