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Definition of Dogfishes
1. dogfish [n] - See also: dogfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogfishes
Literary usage of Dogfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"If Amphioxus affords us a clue to the general architecture of vertebrated animals,
the sharks, dogfishes, and rays are no less important as giving us an ..."
2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"... based upon the conformation of the body; the one group including all the sharks
and dogfishes, and the other the rays and their immediate allies. ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1902)
"If Amphioxus affords us a clue to the general architecture of vertebrated animals,
the sharks, dogfishes, and rays are no less important as giving us an ..."
4. Conditions of Life in the Sea: a short account of quantitative marine by James Johnstone (1908)
"Skates, rays and dogfishes are catholic in their tastes and prey upon all four
of the fishes instanced as examples of the reciprocal destruction of fishes ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... and generally known under the name of "dogfishes. ... dogfishes may become
extremely troublesome by the large numbers in which they con- Fio. 4. ..."
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