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PRIONACE GLAUCA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Prionace glauca mean?
• PRIONACE GLAUCA (noun)
The noun PRIONACE GLAUCA has 1 sense:
1. slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters
Familiarity information: PRIONACE GLAUCA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
blue shark; great blue shark; Prionace glauca
Hypernyms ("Prionace glauca" is a kind of...):
requiem shark (any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species)
Holonyms ("Prionace glauca" is a member of...):
genus Prionace; Prionace (blue sharks)
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