NOUN | animal | Ginglymostoma cirratum, nurse shark | small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia |
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Meaning | small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia. | |
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Synonym | nurse shark | |
Member of | Ginglymostoma, genus Ginglymostoma | nurse sharks |
Broader | shark | Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales |
Catalan | Ginglymostoma cirratum |
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