REQUIEM SHARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does requiem shark mean? 

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

1. any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REQUIEM SHARK (noun)

Meaning:

Any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("requiem 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 "requiem shark"):

Galeorhinus zyopterus; soup-fin; soupfin; soupfin shark (Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A))

Galeocerdo cuvieri; tiger shark (large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body)

blue shark; great blue shark; Prionace glauca (slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters)

lemon shark; Negaprion brevirostris (common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous)

Carcharhinus obscurus; dusky shark (relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters)

Carcharinus longimanus; oceanic whitetip shark; white-tipped shark; whitetip shark (large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin; worldwide distribution; most dangerous shark)

blacktip shark; Carcharhinus limbatus; sandbar shark (widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink)

Carcharhinus plumbeus; sandbar shark (most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen)

bull shark; Carcharhinus leucas; cub shark (a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous)

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

Carcharhinidae; family Carcharhinidae (largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks)