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dogfish Definition

dog·fish (dôgfis̸h′)

noun pl. -·fish′, -·fish′es

  1. any of various small sharks, as a spiny dogfish or the smooth dogfish
  2. 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

  • deep-sea: The only rich source of dietary squalene comes from the liver oils of the deep-sea dogfish.
  • baby: By 4 months the baby dogfish is about half grown.

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