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    NURSE SHARK

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australiaplay

    Synonyms:

    Ginglymostoma cirratum; nurse shark

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("nurse 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)

    Holonyms ("nurse shark" is a member of...):

    genus Ginglymostoma; Ginglymostoma (nurse sharks)

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