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HAMMERHEAD SHARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous
Synonyms:
hammerhead; hammerhead shark
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hammerhead shark" is a kind of...):
shark (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hammerhead shark"):
smooth hammerhead; Sphyrna zygaena (fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver)
smalleye hammerhead; Sphyrna tudes (fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver)
bonnet shark; bonnethead; shovelhead; Sphyrna tiburo (small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries)
Holonyms ("hammerhead shark" is a member of...):
genus Sphyrna; Sphyrna (type genus of the Sphyrnidae)
