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DOGFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: dogfishes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small sharks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dogfish" is a kind of...):

shark (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dogfish"):

smooth dogfish (small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts)

spiny dogfish (small bottom-dwelling dogfishes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America

Synonyms:

Amia calva; bowfin; dogfish; grindle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dogfish" is a kind of...):

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

Holonyms ("dogfish" is a member of...):

Amia; genus Amia (type genus of the Amiidae)

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