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dogfish

/dawg-fish, dog-/US // ˈdɔgˌfɪʃ, ˈdɒg- //UK // (ˈdɒɡˌfɪʃ) //

狗鱼,犬鱼,犬类,狗肉

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dog·fish, dog·fish·es.

    • : any of several small sharks, especially of the genera Mustelus and Squalus, that are destructive to food fishes.
    • : any of various other fishes, as the bowfin.

Examples

  • I wouldn't undertake to trot a dogfish on my knee or sing him to sleep with a pennyr'yal hymn, Captain Candage.

  • They wuz sorted in th' big river but the drive was fouled in the Dogfish.

  • Then the bag was put around 194 the seine to protect the rest of the mackerel from dogfish and sharks, and we were ready to dress.

  • Then he spoke likewise to the dogfish, and the dogfish sang of slaughter and the chase, and the joy of blood.

  • Whereupon the herring, the mackerel, and the dogfish swam forward, and each claimed to be king.