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Definition: Dogfish |
DogfishNoun1. Primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America. 2. Any of several small sharks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dogfish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Health | Sharks of the family Squalidae. The subfamily Squalinae are called dogfish sharks and comprise eight genera with about 44 species. Dogfish often appear in schools near shore and are destructive to fish and fishing gear. Their liver is valued for its oil and its flesh is often made into fertilizer. The Squalus acanthias or spiny dogfish figures heavily in biological research, especially with reference to its rectal gland in water-electrolyte studies. (references) |
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Synonyms: DogfishSynonyms: bowfin (n), grindle (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dogfish |
| English words defined with "dogfish": Atlantic spiny dogfish ♦ Bonedog ♦ Dog shark ♦ Houndfish ♦ Morgay, Mustelus mustelus ♦ Pacific spiny dogfish, Picked dogfish ♦ reef whitetip shark, rock salmon, Roussette ♦ sand shark, Scyllite, Skittle-dog, smoothhound, smoothhound shark, Squalus acanthias, Squalus suckleyi ♦ Triaenodon obseus ♦ whitetip shark. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dogfish": Morgay. (references) |
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 | Fishermen in dory hauling trawl; a dogfish caught From photograph by T.W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate 250. The Thrasher Shark. Alopias vulpes, (Gmel.) Bonap. The Horned Dogfish. Squalus acanthias, L. The Tope or Oil Shark. Galeorhinus galeus, (L.) Blainville. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Dogfish brought up by longline in front of A. Ranc, Rafael de Buen, and J. Richard. Plate VI, print 2. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | NRCS employees and volunteers assisting with streambank stabilization plantings along Dogfish Creek, Washington. This is a Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) project. Credit: Gary Wilson. |
 | Streambank stabalization plantings along Dogfish Creek, Washington at various stages of growth. This is a Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) project. Credit: Gary Wilson. | ||
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Economic History | Greece | U.S. exporters benefiting from the increase in this market included suppliers of Alaskan Pollack, Pacific Salmon, squid, and dogfish. (references) |
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| "Dogfish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dogfish" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dogfish": american smooth dogfish ♦ Atlantic spiny dogfish ♦ dogfish shark ♦ Pacific spiny dogfish ♦ picked dogfish ♦ smooth dogfish ♦ spiny dogfish. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "dogfish": dogfish-sized. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dogfish | 217 | dogfish photo | 3 |
dogfish head | 20 | dogfish recipe | 3 |
dogfish shark | 18 | dogfish pic | 3 |
dogfish spiny | 14 | dogfish brewery | 3 |
dogfish picture | 14 | dogfish picture shark | 3 |
dissection dogfish shark | 10 | cooking dogfish eating | 3 |
dogfish freshwater | 8 | dogfish tackle | 3 |
brewery dogfish head | 7 | dogfish orgrenlin | 3 |
dogfish shark spiny | 7 | dogfish fresh water | 2 |
anatomy dogfish | 5 | dissection dogfish picture shark | 2 |
dogfish head beer | 4 | brewery craft dogfish head | 2 |
bowfin dogfish | 4 | dogfish minnesota | 2 |
dissection dogfish | 4 | dogfish picture spiny | 2 |
dogfish smooth | 4 | dogfish beer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dogfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид малка акула (hound, sea dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 白鲛. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | malý žralok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | småplettet rødhaj, pighaj (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), almindelig pighaj (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doornhaai (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), speerhaai (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), hondshaai (dog-fish, sea-dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pistepunahai, piikkihai (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chien de mer (dog fish, sea dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dornhai (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), seeaal (conger), Kleingefleckter Katzenhai, Kleiner Katzenhai (fay dog, lesser spotted dogfish, rough dog, rough hound, small spotted dogfish), Grundhai (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κεντρόνι (common spiny, grayfish, gulper shark, piked dogfish, rough shark, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), σκύλος (dog, hound), σκυλόψαρο (dog fish, sea dog), σκυλάκι (doggie, doggy, lapdog, pup, puppy, snapdragon, whelp), σκυλοψαράκι, στικτοκεντρόνι (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), γάτος (tom cat), γατοψαράκι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spinarolo (common spiny, grayfish, picked dogfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), piccolo squalo, gattuccio (keyhole hack-saw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '鮫 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つのざめ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gobbag (Peel person), caillagh vreck. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogfishday tubarão (shark), pata-roxa, melga (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), galhudo malhado (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), esqualo, caçao galhudo (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), cação galhudo (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), cação (shark, tope). (various references) морская собака. (various references) mala ajkula. (various references) pintarroja, pinchorro (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), mielga (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), galludo de pintilla (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), galludo (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), ferrón (common spiny, grayfish, piked dogfish, spiny, spiny dogfish, spring dogfish, spurdog), cazón (rock salmon, sea dog). (various references) småfläckig rödhaj, pigghaj (dog fish). (various references) ปลาฉลามหนู. (various references) kedibalığı (Ray, sea dog). (various references) минь (dog fish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Acanthias vulgaris, Scyliorhinus canicula, Scyliorhinus canicula(Linnaeus,1758), Spinax acanthias, Squalus acanthias, Squalus acanthias (Linnaeus). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dogfish": dogfishes. (additional references) | |
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"Dogfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daglish, dagnish, dogish, doogfish, Goghish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dogfish" (pronounced dô"gfi'sh) |
| 4 | -g f i' sh | hagfish. |
| 3 | -f i' sh | Angelfish, catfish, crawfish, cuttlefish, dealfish, flatfish, goldfish, goosefish, jellyfish, jewfish, lungfish, needlefish, pipefish, redfish, sailfish, selfish, shellfish, starfish, sunfish, swordfish, whitefish. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-g-h-i-o-s" | |
-2 letters: fidos. | |
-3 letters: digs, dish, dogs, fido, fids, figs, fish, fogs, ghis, gids, gods, gosh, hods, hogs, shod, shog, sigh. | |
-4 letters: dig, dis, dog, dos, fid, fig, fog, foh, ghi, gid, god, gos, hid, his, hod, hog, ids, ifs, ods, ohs, sod. | |
-5 letters: do, go, hi, ho, id, if, is, od, of, oh, os, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-g-h-i-o-s" | |
+1 letter: goldfish. | |
+2 letters: dogfights, dogfishes. | |
+3 letters: goldfishes, groundfish. | |
+4 letters: fingerholds, floodlights, foresighted, goldfinches. | |
+5 letters: downshifting, groundfishes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 67 66 69 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- --. ..-. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100111 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o g f i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0067 0066 0069 0073 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38817372758574 |
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