TIGER SHARK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body

Synonyms:

Galeocerdo cuvieri; tiger shark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tiger shark" is a kind of...):

requiem shark (any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species)

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

Galeocerdo; genus Galeocerdo (tiger sharks)

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