dogfish
/dawg-fish, dog-/US // ˈdɔgˌfɪʃ, ˈdɒg- //UK // (ˈdɒɡˌfɪʃ) //
狗鱼,犬鱼,犬类,狗肉
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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.
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