Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorhynchus) of the Mississippi River, having a broad flat snout. Also called hackleback, shovel-nosed sturgeon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The shovelnosed sturgeon.
- n. One of two different shovel-nosed sharks. The sand-shark, Carcharias (or Odontaspis) americanus.
Wiktionary
- n. The common sand shark.
- n. A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus).
- n. A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
- n. A ganoid fish of the sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; the white sturgeon.
- n. A type of Native American canoe.
- n. A type of streamlined railway locomotive.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The common sand shark. See under snad.
- n. A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.
- n. A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
- n. A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also
white sturgeon .
Etymologies
- shovel + nose (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We used to get the smaller shovelnose sturgeon with some regularity but the big lake sturgeons were quite rare in my part of the Mississippi.”
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“Mason's favorite part was seeing the baby hammerhead (shovelnose?) sharks, and the blue monitor lizards in the new lizard exhibit.”
“The Syr Darya shovelnose (P. fedtschenkoi) appears to no longer be found in this ecoregion.”
“Or for about US$32, you can wade in a tank with friendly shovelnose rays, blue-spotted stingrays and other marine creatures.”
“The endangered Alabama shovelnose sturgeon is also found in Weeks Bay.”
“Family Acipenseridae pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus”
“And in the Mississippi-Missouri River basin the full species called the pallid sturgeon and the shovelnose sturgeon are indistinguishable by genetic analysis but have obvious morphological differences.”
“Many of the pieces reference nautical themes, from glistening metal benches shaped like a school of shovelnose guitarfish by Leslie Bruning, to Russell Baldon's "Moor" chairs made of cypress trees that are fastened to metal bollards like ships.”
“A: A coveted old-growth log from a Canadian forest has been delivered to Felix Solomon, a noted Lummi carver, and he's planning to start this summer, after he finishes a big project with an earlier deadline involving carving a shovelnose canoe for the Stillaguamish.”
“To the right of the salmon is a gaff hook and two fishermen aboard a traditional shovelnose canoe.”
Lists
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Compound adjectives - based on the FAO ASFIS list of waterborne species.
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Sharks
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bilby Listed by palooka as shovelnosed shark. Nov 16, 2008