| NOUN | animal | smooth dogfish | small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts |
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| Meaning | small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts. | |
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| Member of | Triakidae, family Triakidae | small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins |
| Narrower | American smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis | Found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas |
| Florida smoothhound, Mustelus norrisi | Found from the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil | |
| smoothhound, smoothhound shark, Mustelus mustelus | smooth dogfish of European coastal waters | |
| whitetip shark, reef whitetip shark, Triaenodon obseus | smooth dogfish of Pacific and Indian Oceans and Red Sea having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins | |
| Broader | dogfish | Any of several small sharks |
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