# dogfish

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #65,061

## Definitions
1. Any of various small sharks
2. Any of various small sharks
3. Any of various small sharks
4. Any of various small sharks
5. Any of various small sharks
6. Any of various small sharks
7. Any of various small sharks
8. Any of various small sharks
9. Any of various small sharks
10. Any of various small sharks
11. Any of various small sharks
12. Any of various small sharks
13. The bowfin, Amia calva.

## Etymology
From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/dogfish