smooth dogfish

What does smooth dogfish mean?

smooth dogfish means "small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts".

Is smooth dogfish a common word?

smooth dogfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for smooth dogfish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.