Word Meaning

shovelnose definition and meaning

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.