dogfish

Meaning

1. Any of various small sharks
2. Any of various small sharks
3. Any of various small sharks
4. Any of various small sharks
5. (UK) Any of various small sharks
6. Any of various small sharks
7. (Canada) Any of various small sharks
8. Any of various small sharks
9. (Barbados) Any of various small sharks
10. (Guyana) Any of various small sharks
11. (Trinidad-and-Tobago) Any of various small sharks
12. (Namibia) Any of various small sharks
13. (US) The bowfin, Amia calva.

Synonyms

grindle

bowfin

rock salmon

Amia calva

hound

nurse

nurse shark

nursehound

mudfish

Pacific dogfish

Victorian spotted dogfish

bull huss

common spiny fish

darwen salmon

fay dog

flake catfish

greate-spotted dogfish

cat sharks

dogfish sharks

huss

smooth hounds

carpet shark

cat shark

hog snapper

blue dog

grayfish

greater spotted dogfish

lesser spotted dogfish

rough hound

spurdog

large-spotted dogfish

larger spotted dogfish

nurse-hound

piked dogfish

rough dog

white-spotted dogfish

doggie

flake

hogfish

Translations

كلب البحر

aiguillat

cazón

musola

lija

tollo

pescecane

Dornhai

piccolo squalo

galhudo

σκυλόψαρο

touille

roussette

Etymology

From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages.