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MACKEREL SHARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mackerel 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mackerel shark"):
Lamna nasus; porbeagle (voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific)
mako; mako shark (powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific)
Carcharodon carcharias; great white shark; man-eater; man-eating shark; white shark (large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans)
basking shark; Cetorhinus maximus (large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface)
Holonyms ("mackerel shark" is a member of...):
family Lamnidae; Lamnidae (oceanic sharks)
