SPINY DOGFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spiny dogfish mean? 

• SPINY DOGFISH (noun)
  The noun SPINY DOGFISH has 1 sense:

1. small bottom-dwelling dogfishes

  Familiarity information: SPINY DOGFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINY DOGFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small bottom-dwelling dogfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("spiny dogfish" is a kind of...):

dogfish (any of several small sharks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spiny dogfish"):

Atlantic spiny dogfish; Squalus acanthias (destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of America and Europe; widely used in anatomy classes)

Pacific spiny dogfish; Squalus suckleyi (dogfish of Pacific coast of North America)

Holonyms ("spiny dogfish" is a member of...):

family Squalidae; Squalidae (dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin)

 Context examples 

Based on the new model, the researchers predict that an increase of 1 degree Celsius in seawater temperature, relative to the year 2000, would lead to a 32% increase in methylmercury levels in cod and a 70% increase in spiny dogfish.

(Mercury levels in fish are on the rise, National Science Foundation)