MACKEREL SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mackerel shark mean? 

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

1. fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACKEREL SHARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mackerel 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mackerel shark"):

Lamna nasus; porbeagle (voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific)

mako; mako shark (powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific)

Carcharodon carcharias; great white shark; man-eater; man-eating shark; white shark (large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans)

basking shark; Cetorhinus maximus (large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface)

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

family Lamnidae; Lamnidae (oceanic sharks)