carcharhinidae
English Thesaurus
1. largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | fish family, |
definition | : | any of various families of fish (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | requiem shark, |
definition | : | any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | carcharhinus, genus carcharhinus, |
definition | : | type genus of the Carcharhinidae (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | genus negaprion, negaprion, |
definition | : | lemon sharks (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | genus prionace, prionace, |
definition | : | blue sharks (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | galeocerdo, genus galeocerdo, |
definition | : | tiger sharks (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | galeorhinus, genus galeorhinus, |
definition | : | a genus of Carcharhinidae (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | elasmobranchii, selachii, subclass elasmobranchii, subclass selachii, |
definition | : | sharks; rays; dogfishes; skates (noun.animal) |
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