NURSE SHARK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia

Synonyms:

Ginglymostoma cirratum; nurse shark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("nurse 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)

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

genus Ginglymostoma; Ginglymostoma (nurse sharks)

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