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Blue shark   /blu ʃɑrk/   Listen
Blue shark

noun
1.
Slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters.  Synonyms: great blue shark, Prionace glauca.





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"Blue shark" Quotes from Famous Books



... encountered the dandy Blue Shark, a long, taper and mighty genteel looking fellow, with a slender waist, like a Bond- street beau, and the whitest tiers of teeth imaginable. This dainty spark invariably lounged by with a careless fin and an indolent tail. ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville


Words linked to "Blue shark" :   genus Prionace, Prionace, requiem shark, great blue shark


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