English > requiem shark: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species. |
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| Member of | Carcharhinidae, family Carcharhinidae | largest family of living sharks |
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| Narrower | blacktip shark, sandbar shark, Carcharhinus limbatus | widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink |
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| blue shark, great blue shark, Prionace glauca | slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark |
| bull shark, cub shark, Carcharhinus leucas | A most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide / worldwide |
| dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus | relatively slender blue-grey shark |
| lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris | Common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa |
| sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus | Most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states |
| soupfin shark, soupfin, soup-fin, Galeorhinus zyopterus | Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) |
| tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri | large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body |
| whitetip shark, oceanic whitetip shark, white-tipped shark, Carcharinus longimanus | large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin |
| 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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| Catalan | Carcharhinidae |
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