·noun A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
II. Shovelnose ·noun The common sand shark. ·see under Snad.
III. Shovelnose ·noun A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.
IV. Shovelnose ·noun A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers;
— called also white sturgeon.