BULL SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bull shark mean? 

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

1. a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULL SHARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bull shark; Carcharhinus leucas; cub shark

Hypernyms ("bull shark" is a kind of...):

requiem shark (any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species)

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

Carcharhinus; genus Carcharhinus (type genus of the Carcharhinidae)