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.