dogfish
1
8.7
- noun
- /ˈdɔɡˌfɪʃ/
- Specialized
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- In the aquarium, the dogfish swam gracefully among the other fish.
Examples
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A momentary shock: there, in an aquarium, nose to nose with a moronic-looking dogfish, was a photograph of Billy.
Fiction book (1995) -
This argument may work, Paley allows, for simple structures like the skin of a dogfish, but surely not for highly complex contrivances made of hundreds of parts, all pointing to the same end and each dependent upon all the others.
Academic text (1990) -
But this has not been at the expense of the meanings attached to the creatures that appear in his work—the frog, dogfish, and eagle among them—that underlie these terms.
Academic text (1994) -
The fisherman caught a dogfish while trawling in the calm waters of the lake.
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While exploring the river, we spotted a dogfish resting on the sandy bottom.
Synonyms
1
9.9
A long freshwater fish with a very long top fin that eats other fish
A long freshwater fish from North America that eats other animals and has a long back fin
A long freshwater fish from North America with a long back fin often found in slow, weedy water
Compounds
- Specialized
A small shark that lives along the Atlantic coast of the Americas with smooth skin and a thin body
A small thin shark with sharp spines on its back found in Atlantic coastal waters
A small shark that has two spines on its back and lives along the Pacific coast of North America
- Specialized
A small shark that lives on the sea bottom along the Atlantic coasts of North and South America
How Big
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3.5
11
2.9
- Specialized
- Specialized
1
8.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dogfish is a simple compound of dog and fish. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a river 'dog' — people called some long, fierce freshwater fish dogfish because they bite and hunt like small dogs in slow water. That's why the name fits this meat-eating river fish.