Shovelnose

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shovelnose \Shov"el*nose`\, n. (Zool.)
     (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}.
         [1913 Webster]