CARCHARHINUS OBSCURUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carcharhinus obscurus mean? 

• CARCHARHINUS OBSCURUS (noun)
  The noun CARCHARHINUS OBSCURUS has 1 sense:

1. relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters

  Familiarity information: CARCHARHINUS OBSCURUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARCHARHINUS OBSCURUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carcharhinus obscurus; dusky shark

Hypernyms ("Carcharhinus obscurus" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Carcharhinus obscurus" is a member of...):

Carcharhinus; genus Carcharhinus (type genus of the Carcharhinidae)