SOUPFIN

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Meaning:

Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)

Synonyms:

Galeorhinus zyopterus; soup-fin; soupfin; soupfin shark

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("soupfin" is a kind of...):

requiem shark (any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species)

Holonyms ("soupfin" is a member of...):

Galeorhinus; genus Galeorhinus (a genus of Carcharhinidae)

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