GREAT BLUE SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great blue shark mean? 

• GREAT BLUE SHARK (noun)
  The noun GREAT BLUE SHARK has 1 sense:

1. slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT BLUE SHARK (noun)

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Meaning:

Slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

blue shark; great blue shark; Prionace glauca

Hypernyms ("great blue 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 ("great blue shark" is a member of...):

genus Prionace; Prionace (blue sharks)