Among the 250 shark species that may be threatened by the fin trade are hammerheads, the plankton-eating basking shark and the spiny dogfish.
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Dogfish
Synonyms for "dogfish" (9 found)
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15 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 10 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- γαλεός noun (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families)
- σκύλιον noun (shark in family Squalidae)
Finnish
1 entries- piikkihai noun (shark in family Squalidae)
German
2 entries- Dornhai noun (shark in family Squalidae)
- Dornhaiartige noun (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families)
Irish
1 entries- fíogach noun (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families)
Italian
1 entries- pescecane noun (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families)
Nootka
1 entries- yačaa noun (shark in family Squalidae)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كوپك بالغی noun (small shark)
Portuguese
4 entries- cação noun (small shark)
- cação noun (shark in family Squalidae)
- cação noun (small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families)
- esqualídeo noun (shark in family Squalidae)
Spanish
1 entries- cazón noun (small shark)
Tagalog
1 entries- bilingbiling noun (shark in family Squalidae)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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 Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.
Source: wiktionary
Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
Source: wiktionary
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