spiny dogfish

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   small bottom-dwelling dogfishes

   Broaderdogfish

   NarrowerAtlantic spiny dogfishPacific spiny dogfish

   Part ofSqualidae

Questions about spiny dogfish

What does spiny dogfish mean?

spiny dogfish means "small bottom-dwelling dogfishes".

Is spiny dogfish a common word?

spiny 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.