spiny dogfish

English Thesaurus

1. small bottom-dwelling dogfishes (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	dogfish,
definition	:	any of several small sharks (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	atlantic spiny dogfish, squalus acanthias,
definition	:	destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of America and Europe; widely used in anatomy classes (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	pacific spiny dogfish, squalus suckleyi,
definition	:	dogfish of Pacific coast of North America (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family squalidae, squalidae,
definition	:	dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin (noun.animal)