HyperDic: thresher_shark

English > 1 sense of the expression thresher shark:
NOUNanimalthresher shark, thresher, thrasher, fox shark, Alopius vulpinuslarge pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
English > thresher shark: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninglarge pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed.
Synonymsthresher, thrasher, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus
Member ofAlopius, genus Alopiustype genus of the family Alopiidae
BroadersharkAny of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
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