HAMMERHEAD SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hammerhead shark mean? 

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

1. medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMMERHEAD SHARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hammerhead; hammerhead shark

Hypernyms ("hammerhead 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hammerhead shark"):

smooth hammerhead; Sphyrna zygaena (fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver)

smalleye hammerhead; Sphyrna tudes (fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver)

bonnet shark; bonnethead; shovelhead; Sphyrna tiburo (small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries)

Holonyms ("hammerhead shark" is a member of...):

genus Sphyrna; Sphyrna (type genus of the Sphyrnidae)