requiem shark
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1. any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | shark, |
| definition | : | any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bull shark, carcharhinus leucas, cub shark, |
| definition | : | a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | carcharhinus plumbeus, sandbar shark, |
| definition | : | most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | blacktip shark, carcharhinus limbatus, sandbar shark, |
| definition | : | widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | carcharinus longimanus, oceanic whitetip shark, white-tipped shark, whitetip shark, |
| definition | : | large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin; worldwide distribution; most dangerous shark (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | carcharhinus obscurus, dusky shark, |
| definition | : | relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lemon shark, negaprion brevirostris, |
| definition | : | common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | blue shark, great blue shark, prionace glauca, |
| definition | : | slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | galeocerdo cuvieri, tiger shark, |
| definition | : | large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | galeorhinus zyopterus, soup-fin, soupfin, soupfin shark, |
| definition | : | Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | carcharhinidae, family carcharhinidae, |
| definition | : | 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) |
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