NURSE SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nurse shark mean? 

• NURSE SHARK (noun)
  The noun NURSE SHARK has 1 sense:

1. small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia

  Familiarity information: NURSE SHARK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NURSE SHARK (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 Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ginglymostoma cirratum; nurse shark

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)