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Shovelnose :: Shovelnose (n.) The common sand shark. See under Snad.

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

Chondropterygii :: Chondropterygii (n. pl.) A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter..

Sea Ape :: Sea ape () The thrasher shark.

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

Roussette :: Roussette (n.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.

Sea Purse :: Sea purse () The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks..

Shark :: Shark (v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas..

Shovelhead :: Shovelhead (n.) A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.

Gangetic :: Gangetic (a.) Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangetic shark..

Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

Tope :: Tope (n.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog..

Notidanian :: Notidanian (n.) Any one of several species of sharks of the family Notidanidae, or Hexanchidae. Called also cow sharks. See Shark..

Shovelnose :: Shovelnose (n.) A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).

Squalodont :: Squalodon (n.) A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.

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..

Squalor :: Squaloid (a.) Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

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

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