dogfish
dogfish
Definition
dog·fish (dôg′fis̸h′)
noun pl. -·fish′, -·fish′es
- any of various small sharks, as a spiny dogfish or the smooth dogfish
- bowfin
dogfish
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- dab: Whiting, dabs, dogfish, plus the odd monkfish make up the early season catches.
- catch: We had a nice breakfast and Chris caught a dogfish.
- include: Much marine life was observed on this dive including a lone dogfish.
- hatch: When the dogfish hatched out in a tank set aside specially for young fish, it just lay quietly or moved around very gently.
- white: Few cod or whiting only dogfish and early ray.
- find: Features: The LSD is one of only three species of dogfish found around the British coast.
Adjective modifier
- lesser-spotted: Other species such as rockling and freshwater eel, plus occasionally a few lesser-spotted dogfish and strap conger eel, will show.
- spotted: The lesser spotted dogfish is the most common shark species around the UK, including Sussex.
- Portuguese: The Portuguese dogfish is found in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
- lesser: The lesser spotted dogfish is the most common shark species around the UK, including Sussex.
- spiny: We saw a shark ( possibly a spiny dogfish ) cruising up from the depths.
- young: I came across a Mermaid's Purse, with a young dogfish still alive inside, tangled around the base of a kelp.
Modifies a noun
- egg: We illustrate how our method is used in a section of the marginal rib of the dogfish egg case.
- hopper: This is ideal for areas around turnouts as the ballast flow is far more controlled than from a dogfish hopper.
- case: We illustrate how our method is used in a section of the marginal rib of the dogfish egg case.
Noun used with modifier
