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BULL SHARK

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Dictionary entry overview: What does bull shark mean?

• BULL SHARK (noun)
The noun BULL SHARK has 1 sense:

1. a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous

Familiarity information: BULL SHARK used as a noun is very rare.

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• BULL SHARK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bull shark; Carcharhinus leucas; cub shark

Hypernyms ("bull 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 ("bull shark" is a member of...):

Carcharhinus; genus Carcharhinus (type genus of the Carcharhinidae)

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