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Meaning of shovelnose

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