dogfish

«dogfish» in Mova's school dictionary: A kind of small shark found in seas around Britain… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a dogfish, dogfish or dogfishes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A kind of small shark found in seas around Britain, Europe, North America and elsewhere, often with a spotted skin. tree →

2) A name for some other fish, such as the bowfin of North American lakes. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science and nature lessons about the sea: the dogfish is a real shark, though small and harmless to people. It lays eggs in cases called «mermaid's purses» that wash up on beaches. In fish shops in Britain it is sometimes sold as «rock salmon» or «huss».

examples

• We saw a dogfish at the sea-life centre. tree →
• A dogfish is a small kind of shark. tree →
• The fisherman caught a spotted dogfish. tree →
• Dogfish eggs come in cases called mermaid's purses. tree →
• On the beach we found an empty dogfish egg case. tree →
• The dogfish swam slowly along the bottom of the tank. tree →
• In biology we looked at the skin of a dogfish. tree →
• Dogfish have rough skin like sandpaper. tree →

note

Plural usually «dogfish» (same as singular), sometimes «dogfishes» for kinds. It is a fish, not a dog; the name may come from the way they hunt in packs.

In the corpora

• Soft Pau Amma cannot leave Pusat Tasek, because sharks and dogfish would eat him.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dogfish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.