| NOUN | animal | mackerel shark | fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks |
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| Meaning | fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks. | |
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| Member of | Lamnidae, family Lamnidae | Oceanic sharks |
| Narrower | basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus | large harmless plankton-eating northern shark |
| great white shark, white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas | |
| mako, mako shark | Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific | |
| porbeagle, Lamna nasus | voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific | |
| Broader | shark | Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales |
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