a. and sb. [f. L. squalus SQUALUS: see -OID.]
A. adj. Shark-like; comprising the sharks.
1836. Buckland, Geol. & Min., xiv. § 13 (1837), I. 289, note. In the third, or Squaloid division of fossils of the family.
1852. Ansted, Phys. Geog., xii. in Man. Geog. Sci., I. 380. With the exception of the Squaloid, or Shark family.
B. sb. A fish of the shark family.
1836. Buckland, Geol. & Min., xiv. § 13 (1837), I. 287. The third family of Squaloids, or true Sharks, commences with the Cretaceous formation.
1863. Dana, Man. Geol., 278. The squaloids have an elongated body.
