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NURSE SHARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia
Synonyms:
Ginglymostoma cirratum; nurse shark
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("nurse 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)
Holonyms ("nurse shark" is a member of...):
genus Ginglymostoma; Ginglymostoma (nurse sharks)
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