CARPET SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpet shark mean? 

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

1. shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPET SHARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

carpet shark; Orectolobus barbatus

Hypernyms ("carpet 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 ("carpet shark" is a member of...):

genus Orectolobus; Orectolobus (carpet sharks)