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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOGFISH, n. A name given to several species of shark, as the spotted shark or greater dogfish, the piked dogfish, etc.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America [syn: bowfin, grindle, dogfish, Amia calva]
2: any of several small sharks

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century any of various usually small bottom-dwelling sharks (as of the families Squalidae, Carcharhinidae, and Scyliorhinidae) that often appear in schools near shore, prey chiefly on fish and invertebrates, and are a valuable food source

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. same or dogfishes) any of various small sharks esp. of the families Scyliorhinidae or Squalidae.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Roussette Rous*sette", n. [F.; -- so called in allusion to the color. See Russet.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) 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. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Amia Am"i*a, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a kind of tunny.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dogfish Dog"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) 1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. 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. 2. The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin. 3. The burbot of Lake Erie.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Houndfish Hound"fish, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish. Note: The European nursehound, or small-spotted dogfish, is Scyllium canicula; the rough houndfish, or large-spotted dogfish, is S. catulus. The name has also sometimes been applied to the bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix), and to the silver gar.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dogfish) A dogfish is a small shark. There are several kinds of dogfish. N-COUNT