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CARCHARHINUS OBSCURUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
Synonyms:
Carcharhinus obscurus; dusky shark
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Carcharhinus obscurus" is a kind of...):
requiem shark (any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species)
Holonyms ("Carcharhinus obscurus" is a member of...):
Carcharhinus; genus Carcharhinus (type genus of the Carcharhinidae)