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shovelnose

shovelnose


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shovelnose  \Shov"el*nose`\,  n.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  a  The  common  sand  shark.  See  under  {Snad}. 
  b  A  small  California  shark  ({Heptranchias  maculatus}), 
  which  is  taken  for  its  oil. 
  c  A  Pacific  Ocean  shark  ({Hexanchus  corinus}). 
  d  A  ganoid  fish  of  the  Sturgeon  family  ({Scaphirhynchus 
  platyrhynchus})  of  the  Mississippi  and  Ohio  rivers;  -- 
  called  also  {white  sturgeon}.