Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shovelnosed sturgeon.
- noun One of two different shovel-nosed sharks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The common sand shark. See under
snad . - noun A small California shark (
Heptranchias maculatus ), which is taken for its oil. - noun A Pacific Ocean shark (
Hexanchus corinus ). - noun A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (
Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus ) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called alsowhite sturgeon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The common sand shark.
- noun A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus).
- noun A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
- noun A
ganoid fish of thesturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; the white sturgeon. - noun A type of
Native American canoe . - noun A type of
streamlined railway locomotive .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Think Progress » Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil 2010
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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.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2007
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Or for about US$32, you can wade in a tank with friendly shovelnose rays, blue-spotted stingrays and other marine creatures.
Finding Nemo 2008
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The Syr Darya shovelnose (P. fedtschenkoi) appears to no longer be found in this ecoregion.
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The endangered Alabama shovelnose sturgeon is also found in Weeks Bay.
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Family Acipenseridae pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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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.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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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.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Family Acipenseridae pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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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.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
bilby commented on the word shovelnose
Listed by palooka as shovelnosed shark.
November 16, 2008