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Meanings of dogfish in English

Portuguese
amia
Spanish
amia calva

Primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America.

amia
Usage of dogfish in English
1
Conditions were ideal which resulted in some nice fish caught, including dogfish.
The Irish Times
2
They include species like the small blue butterfly and the spiny dogfish.
BBC
3
Lord Sheffield, writing in 1785, suggested herrings, seals, dogfish and sun-fish as good sources.
The Irish Times
4
Rig is also known as spotted dogfish or spotted smoothhound.
Radio NZ
5
Last time we went, all you caught was a dogfish and one starved bullhead.
Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island
6
Suga sniffs and focuses on me with puffy dogfish eyes.
Number9Dream
7
Shark and the giant blackfish follow dogfish and seal.
Poor Man's Rock
8
My best guess would be a juvenile dogfish.
The Irish Times
9
Some big dogfish also passed by, a voracious species of shark if there ever was one.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
10
Porpoise stew, fillets of dogfish, or stewed shark.
The Wizard of the Sea; Or, A Trip Under the Ocean
11
Shark Wars is the story of Gray, the reef shark, and his best friend Barkley the dogfish.
Wired
12
CITES will also consider regulations on hammerhead sharks, the spiny dogfish, crocodiles, antelopes and the African rhino.
Reuters
13
He may have none, and the web be torn by sharks and fouled heavy with worthless dogfish.
Poor Man's Rock
14
You can be out swimming and see dogfish, crabs, even seals who swim really near to us.
BBC
15
Turtle livers, loin of shark, dogfish steaks?
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
16
We met dissecting dogfish.... Do you remember your first day with me?...
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
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Portuguese
amia
Spanish
amia calva
Dogfish through the time