noun
any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species
• Hypernyms: ↑shark
• Hyponyms:
↑bull shark, ↑cub shark, ↑Carcharhinus leucas, ↑sandbar shark, ↑Carcharhinus plumbeus, ↑blacktip shark, ↑Carcharhinus limbatus, ↑whitetip shark, ↑oceanic whitetip shark, ↑white-tipped shark, ↑Carcharinus longimanus, ↑dusky shark, ↑Carcharhinus obscurus, ↑lemon shark, ↑Negaprion brevirostris, ↑blue shark, ↑great blue shark, ↑Prionace glauca, ↑tiger shark, ↑Galeocerdo cuvieri, ↑soupfin shark, ↑soupfin, ↑soup-fin, ↑Galeorhinus zyopterus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Carcharhinidae, ↑family Carcharhinidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.