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ANGEL SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angel shark mean? 

ANGEL SHARK (noun)
  The noun ANGEL SHARK has 1 sense:

1. sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks doplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ANGEL SHARK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

angel shark; angelfish; monkfish; Squatina squatina

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

genus Squatina; Squatina (type genus of the Squatinidae: angel sharks)


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