HyperDic: lemon_shark

English > 1 sense of the expression lemon shark:
NOUNanimallemon shark, Negaprion brevirostriscommon shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa
English > lemon shark: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningCommon shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous.
SynonymNegaprion brevirostris
Member ofNegaprion, genus Negaprionlemon sharks
Broaderrequiem sharkAny of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species
CatalanNegaprion brevirostris

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