BLUE SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue shark mean? 

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

1. slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE SHARK (noun)

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 ("blue 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 ("blue shark" is a member of...):

genus Prionace; Prionace (blue sharks)

 Context examples 

The research revealed that blue sharks spent a good portion of their days using these whirling pockets of warm water to find prey.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)

White sharks, which are warm-blooded animals, used a combination of warm- and cold-water eddies to locate food in the twilight zone, while blue sharks — a cold-blooded species — relied exclusively on warm-water eddies.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)

Camrin Braun, a University of Washington marine ecologist and lead author of the study, says the behavior of the blue sharks was similar to that of white sharks the team tracked in a study last year.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)

Blue sharks use large, swirling ocean currents known as eddies to fast-track their way to food in the twilight zone — a layer of the sea between 200 and 1,000 meters deep, according to new research by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)