Shovelnose

·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.