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GALEOCERDO CUVIERI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body
Synonyms:
Galeocerdo cuvieri; tiger shark
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Galeocerdo cuvieri" is a kind of...):
requiem shark (any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species)
Holonyms ("Galeocerdo cuvieri" is a member of...):
Galeocerdo; genus Galeocerdo (tiger sharks)