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MAKO SHARK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific

Synonyms:

mako; mako shark

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mako shark" is a kind of...):

mackerel shark (fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mako shark"):

Isurus oxyrhincus; shortfin mako (very swift active bluish shark found worldwide in warm waters; important game fish)

Isurus paucus; longfin mako (similar to shortfin mako but darker blue)

blue pointed; bonito shark; Isurus glaucus (common blue-grey shark of southwest Pacific; sport and food fish)

Holonyms ("mako shark" is a member of...):

genus Isurus; Isurus (mako sharks)

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