SHOVELNOSE


Meaning of SHOVELNOSE in English

noun a pacific ocean shark (hexanchus corinus).

2. shovelnose ·noun the common sand shark. ·see under snad.

3. shovelnose ·noun a small california shark (heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.

4. shovelnose ·noun a ganoid fish of the sturgeon family (scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the mississippi and ohio rivers;

— called also white sturgeon.

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