dogfish

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various small sharks
    — 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.
  2. Any of various small sharks; Especially those from the family Squalidae
  3. Any of various small sharks; A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
  4. Any of various small sharks; A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
  5. Any of various small sharks; Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris UK
  6. Any of various small sharks; Scyliorhinus canicula
  7. Any of various small sharks; Squalus suckleyi Canada
  8. Any of various small sharks; Mustelus canis
  9. Any of various small sharks; Bodianus rufus Barbados
  10. Any of various small sharks; Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis Guyana
  11. Any of various small sharks; Ginglymostoma cirratum Trinidad-and-Tobago
  12. Any of various small sharks; Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii Namibia
  13. The bowfin, Amia calva. US
    — Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
动词 v.
  1. To engage in dogfishing.

词形变化

dogfish plural dogfishes plural dog-fish alternative dogfishes present,singular,third-person dogfishing participle,present dogfished participle,past dogfished past dog-fish alternative

词源

词源 1
From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages.
词源 2
From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages.
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