English Explanatory Dictionary

dogfish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various small sharks
  2. Especially those from the family Squalidae
  3. A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
  4. A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
  5. Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
  6. Scyliorhinus canicula
  7. Squalus suckleyi
  8. Mustelus canis
  9. Bodianus rufus
  10. Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
  11. Ginglymostoma cirratum
  12. Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dogfish.wav

Word forms

dogfish dogfishes dog-fish

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

seadog

Related words

dog salmon catfish flake smooth hound waterdog

Derived words

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

Translations

Polish: rekinek Portuguese: cação Spanish: cazón Ottoman Turkish: كوپك بالغی German: Dornhaiartige Ancient Greek: γαλεός Irish: fíogach Italian: pescecane
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