LEMON SHARK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous

Synonyms:

lemon shark; Negaprion brevirostris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

genus Negaprion; Negaprion (lemon sharks)

Credits