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SOUP-FIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soup-fin mean? 

SOUP-FIN (noun)
  The noun SOUP-FIN has 1 sense:

1. Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)play

  Familiarity information: SOUP-FIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOUP-FIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Galeorhinus zyopterus; soup-fin; soupfin; soupfin shark

Hypernyms ("soup-fin" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("soup-fin" is a member of...):

Galeorhinus; genus Galeorhinus (a genus of Carcharhinidae)


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