| NOUN | animal | hammerhead shark, hammerhead | medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head |
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| Meaning | medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide / worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous. | |
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| Synonym | hammerhead | |
| Member of | Sphyrna, genus Sphyrna | type genus of the Sphyrnidae |
| Narrower | shovelhead, bonnethead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo | small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head |
| smalleye hammerhead, Sphyrna tudes | fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver | |
| smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena | fished for the hides / hides and vitamin-rich liver | |
| Broader | shark | Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales |
| Spanish | cornudilla, pez martillo | |
| Catalan | peix martell | |
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