carcharhinus leucas

English Thesaurus

1. a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	requiem shark,
definition	:	any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	carcharhinus, genus carcharhinus,
definition	:	type genus of the Carcharhinidae (noun.animal)