ALOPIUS VULPINUS

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Meaning:

Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Alopius vulpinus" 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 ("Alopius vulpinus" is a member of...):

Alopius; genus Alopius (type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae)