Meaning

6 senses
  1. The common sand shark.

  2. A small California shark (Notorynchus cepedianus).

  3. A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus griseus).

  4. A fish of the sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; the white sturgeon.

  5. A type of Native American canoe.

  6. A type of streamlined railway locomotive.

Origin

From shovel + nose.

From shovel + nose.

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Forms

plural: shovelnoses
Singularshovelnose
Pluralshovelnoses

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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