1. destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of America and Europe; widely used in anatomy classes; [syn: Atlantic spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Atlantic spiny dogfish
n 1: destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of
America and Europe; widely used in anatomy classes [syn:
Atlantic spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias]