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Blue shark   /blu ʃɑrk/   Listen
Blue shark

noun
1.
Slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters.  Synonyms: great blue shark, Prionace glauca.






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"Blue shark" Quotes from Famous Books



... continued a long time, the shark evidently getting worsted. Possibly the bottom, which was clear, was favourable for his enemy; whose blow, if he succeeds in striking while the shark is descending, is fatal. I think he had struck him, for the blue shark is seldom seen in shoal or discoloured water; yet now he floundered on towards the bottom of the bay, madly lashing the water into foam, and rolling and pitching like a vessel dismasted. For a few minutes his conqueror pursued him, then wheeled ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19. No. 538 - 17 Mar 1832 • Various



Words linked to "Blue shark" :   requiem shark, genus Prionace, Prionace



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