…a long-bodied chiefly marine fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, a prominent dorsal fin, and toothlike scales. Most sharks are predatory, although the largest kinds feed on plankton…
…a small bottom-dwelling shark that has catlike eyes and small dorsal fins set well back. It is typically strikingly marked and lives in warmer waters…
…a dull gray or brown shark that lives mainly in deep water, especially in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean…
…an active bottom-dwelling cartilaginous fish with broad winglike pectoral fins…
…a long slender shark with an indigo-blue back and white underparts, typically occurring in the open sea…
…a large, stout-bodied aggressive shark. Its widespread distribution, its habits of feeding close to shore, and its tendency to venture far into estuaries and rivers makes it a species particularly dangerous to humans…
…a moneylender who charges extremely high rates of interest, typically under illegal conditions…
…a very large tropical shark that typically swims close to the surface, where it feeds chiefly on plankton. It is the largest known fish…
…a large shark that feeds exclusively on plankton and often swims slowly close to the surface, found chiefly in the open ocean…
…a heavy-bodied, dull-coloured shark of the tropical Atlantic, with numerous thornlike spines on the back…
…a relatively small shallow-water shark with barbels around the nose or mouth and typically with a conspicuous color pattern. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region and the Red Sea…
…an elongated deep-sea shark of snakelike appearance, with prominent gill covers that give the appearance of a frill around the neck…
…a migratory, livebearing shark of warm seas, sometimes also found in brackish or fresh water…
…(of a television series or movie) reach a point at which far-fetched events are included merely for the sake of novelty, indicative of a decline in quality…
…a large, aggressive shark of warm seas, with a brownish or gray back, white underparts, and large triangular teeth…
…a person who cheats at cards in order to win money…
…a large fast-moving oceanic shark with a deep blue back and white underparts…
…a small, edible shark of Australasian coastal waters, with rounded teeth that it uses to crush hard-shelled prey…
…a remora, especially Echeneis naucrates, the most abundant remora of warm waters…
…a surface-living shark with a long upper lobe to the tail. Threshers often hunt in pairs, lashing the water with their tails to herd fish into a tightly packed shoal…
…a small hammerhead shark with a relatively narrow rounded head, found in American waters…
…a shark of tropical and temperate oceans that has flattened bladelike extensions on either side of the head, with the eyes and nostrils placed at or near the ends…
…a shark with a very large wide mouth and tiny teeth, first captured in 1976 off the Hawaiian Islands…
…a small Southeast Asian freshwater fish with a sharklike tail, popular in aquariums…
…a small bottom-dwelling shark that has catlike eyes and small dorsal fins set well back. It is typically strikingly marked and lives in warmer waters…
…(1955-), Australian golfer; full name Gregory John Norman; called Great White Shark. He won the Australian Open in 1980, 1985, 1987, and 1995 and the British Open in 1986 and 1993…
…an active bottom-dwelling cartilaginous fish with broad winglike pectoral fins…
…a small Southeast Asian freshwater fish with a sharklike tail, popular in aquariums…
