THRESHER SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thresher shark mean? 

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

1. large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRESHER SHARK (noun)

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Meaning:

Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Alopius vulpinus; fox shark; thrasher; thresher; thresher shark

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

Alopius; genus Alopius (type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae)