HAMMERHEAD SHARK

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Meaning:

Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous

Synonyms:

hammerhead; hammerhead shark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hammerhead 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hammerhead shark"):

smooth hammerhead; Sphyrna zygaena (fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver)

smalleye hammerhead; Sphyrna tudes (fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver)

bonnet shark; bonnethead; shovelhead; Sphyrna tiburo (small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries)

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

genus Sphyrna; Sphyrna (type genus of the Sphyrnidae)