DUSKY SHARK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters

Synonyms:

Carcharhinus obscurus; dusky shark

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Nouns denoting animals

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

Carcharhinus; genus Carcharhinus (type genus of the Carcharhinidae)

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