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Shovelnose [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The common sand shark. See under Snad.

2. A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.

3. A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).

4. A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon.