English > shark: 5 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales. |
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| Narrower | angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish | sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do |
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| carpet shark, Orectolobus barbatus | shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin |
| cat shark | small bottom-dwelling sharks with cat-like eyes |
| cow shark, six-gilled shark, Hexanchus griseus | large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seas |
| dogfish | Any of several small sharks |
| hammerhead, hammerhead shark | medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head |
| mackerel shark | fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks |
| nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum | small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia |
| requiem shark | Any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species |
| sand tiger, sand shark, Carcharias taurus, Odontaspis taurus | shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic |
| thresher, thrasher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus | large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed |
| whale shark, Rhincodon typus | large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide / worldwide |
| Broader | elasmobranch, selachian | Any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales |
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| Spanish | selachimorpha, tiburon, tiburón |
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| Catalan | tauró |
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| Verbs | shark | hunt shark |
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