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Carcharodon

noun

man-eating sharks

• Syn: ↑genus Carcharodon

• Hypernyms: ↑fish genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lamnidae, ↑family Lamnidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑great white shark, ↑white shark, ↑man-eater, ↑man-eating shark, ↑Carcharodon carcharias

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\\kärˈkarəˌdän\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek karcharodōn

: a genus of sharks (family Lamnidae) comprising the man-eater and a number of extinct related forms having carcharodont teeth

Useful english dictionary. 2012.