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smooth dogfish

/smuð ˌdɔgˈfɪʃ/
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Definitions of smooth dogfish
  1. noun
    small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts
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    types:
    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
    Triaenodon obseus, reef whitetip shark, whitetip shark
    smooth dogfish of Pacific and Indian Oceans and Red Sea having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins
    type of:
    dogfish
    any of several small sharks
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