Meaning

13 senses

  1. Any of various small sharks

    any of several small sharks

  2. Any of various small sharks

    Especially those from the family Squalidae

    Dornhai

  3. A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae

  4. A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae

  5. (UK)Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris

  6. Scyliorhinus canicula

  7. (Canada)Squalus suckleyi

  8. Mustelus canis

  9. (Barbados)Bodianus rufus

  10. (Guyana)Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis

  11. (Trinidad and Tobago)Ginglymostoma cirratum

  12. (Namibia)Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii

Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families:
shark in family Squalidae:

Origin

From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“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.

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Forms

plural: dogfish / dogfishes

Synonyms

4 synonyms
cur fish
Close in meaning
  • primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America:bowfingrindleAmia calva

Word family

2 related words
Deriveddogfish sharkspiny dogfish

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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