dogfish
Any of various small sharks.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
Any of various small sharks.
Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisherie…
Origin: From . Compare , , , , and dogfish, and . For non-Indo-European cognates, see and , likely calques from Indo-European languages. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(US) The bowfin, .
Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisherie…
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