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REQUIEM SHARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("requiem 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 "requiem shark"):
bull shark; Carcharhinus leucas; cub shark (a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous)
Carcharhinus plumbeus; sandbar shark (most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen)
blacktip shark; Carcharhinus limbatus; sandbar shark (widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink)
Carcharinus longimanus; oceanic whitetip shark; white-tipped shark; whitetip shark (large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin; worldwide distribution; most dangerous shark)
Carcharhinus obscurus; dusky shark (relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters)
lemon shark; Negaprion brevirostris (common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous)
blue shark; great blue shark; Prionace glauca (slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters)
Galeocerdo cuvieri; tiger shark (large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body)
Galeorhinus zyopterus; soup-fin; soupfin; soupfin shark (Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A))
Holonyms ("requiem shark" is a member of...):
Carcharhinidae; family Carcharhinidae (largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks)
