NEGAPRION BREVIROSTRIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Negaprion brevirostris mean? 

• NEGAPRION BREVIROSTRIS (noun)
  The noun NEGAPRION BREVIROSTRIS has 1 sense:

1. common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous

  Familiarity information: NEGAPRION BREVIROSTRIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGAPRION BREVIROSTRIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lemon shark; Negaprion brevirostris

Hypernyms ("Negaprion brevirostris" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Negaprion brevirostris" is a member of...):

genus Negaprion; Negaprion (lemon sharks)