dogfish

Noun
Synonyms: bowfingrindleAmia calva

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North AmericaSynonyms: bowfingrindleAmia calva
  2. any of several small sharks
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Houndfish \Hound"fish\, n. (Zool.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (Galeus canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish. [1913 Webster]

Note: The European nursehound, or small-spotted dogfish, is Scyllium canicula; the rough houndfish, or large-spotted dogfish, is Scyllium catulus. The name has also sometimes been applied to the bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix), and to the silver gar. [1913 Webster]

Roussette \Rous*sette"\, n. [F.; -- so called in allusion to the color. See Russet.]

1.(Zool.) A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings. [1913 Webster]

2.(Zool.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish. [1913 Webster]

Amia \Am"i*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a kind of tunny.] (Zool.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. [1913 Webster]
Dogfish \Dog"fish`\, n. (Zool.)

1.A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. [1913 Webster]

Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and Scyllium canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked, or horned dogfish (Squalus acanthias) abundant on both sides of the Atlantic. [1913 Webster]

2.The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin. [1913 Webster]

3.The burbot of Lake Erie. [1913 Webster]

Bowfin \Bow"fin`\, n. (Zool.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish. [1913 Webster]
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