GREAT BLUE SHARK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters

Synonyms:

blue shark; great blue shark; Prionace glauca

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("great blue shark" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("great blue shark" is a member of...):

genus Prionace; Prionace (blue sharks)