hammerhead shark
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1. medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous (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 | : | smooth hammerhead, sphyrna zygaena, |
definition | : | fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | smalleye hammerhead, sphyrna tudes, |
definition | : | fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | bonnet shark, bonnethead, shovelhead, sphyrna tiburo, |
definition | : | small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | genus sphyrna, sphyrna, |
definition | : | type genus of the Sphyrnidae (noun.animal) |
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