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Shovelnose :: Shovelnose (n.) A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil..

Basking Shark :: Basking shark () One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species..

Houndfish :: Houndfish (n.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

Man-eater :: Man-eater (n.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh..

Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The basking, or liver, shark..

Foxfish :: Foxfish (n.) The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark..

Dogfish :: Dogfish (n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc..

Galei :: Galei (n. pl.) That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

Hybodus :: Hybodus (n.) An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth..

Shark :: Shark (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Cestraciont :: Cestraciont (n.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples..

Hybodont :: Hybodont (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones..

Placoid :: Placoid (n.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks..

Cartilaginous :: Cartilaginous (a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks..

Amphistylic :: Amphistylic (a.) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull..

Hoemother :: Hoemother (n.) The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver..

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts..

Thresher :: Thresher (n.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark..

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