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FOX SHARK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fox shark mean?
• FOX SHARK (noun)
The noun FOX SHARK has 1 sense:
1. large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
Familiarity information: FOX SHARK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Alopius vulpinus; fox shark; thrasher; thresher; thresher shark
Hypernyms ("fox 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 ("fox shark" is a member of...):
Alopius; genus Alopius (type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae)
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