Category:Shovelnose

Shov"el*nose`, n. (zoöl.) (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.