SMOOTH DOGFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smooth dogfish mean? 

• SMOOTH DOGFISH (noun)
  The noun SMOOTH DOGFISH has 1 sense:

1. small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts

  Familiarity information: SMOOTH DOGFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOOTH DOGFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("smooth dogfish" is a kind of...):

dogfish (any of several small sharks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smooth dogfish"):

Mustelus mustelus; smoothhound; smoothhound shark (smooth dogfish of European coastal waters)

American smooth dogfish; Mustelus canis (found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas)

Florida smoothhound; Mustelus norrisi (found from the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil)

reef whitetip shark; Triaenodon obseus; whitetip shark (smooth dogfish of Pacific and Indian Oceans and Red Sea having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins)

Holonyms ("smooth dogfish" is a member of...):

family Triakidae; Triakidae (small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins)