…a long-bodied chiefly marine fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, a prominent dorsal fin, and tooth-like scales. Most sharks are predatory, though the largest kinds feed on plankton, and some can grow to a large size…
…a small bottom-dwelling shark that has catlike eyes and small dorsal fins set well back, inhabiting warmer waters…
…a dull grey or brown shark that lives mainly in deep water, especially in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean…
…a large, active bottom-dwelling cartilaginous fish with broad wing-like pectoral fins…
…a long, slender shark with an indigo-blue back and white underparts, found typically 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…
…an aggressive shark of warm seas, with dark vertical stripes on the body…
…a very large tropical shark which typically swims close to the surface, where it feeds chiefly on plankton. It is the largest known fish…
…a large shark which feeds exclusively on plankton and typically 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 conspicuously marked small shallow-water shark with barbels around the nose or mouth, 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, live-bearing shark of warm seas, sometimes also found in brackish or fresh water…
…(of a television series or film) reach a point when 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 grey back, white underparts, and large triangular teeth…
…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 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 blade-like extensions on either side of the head, with the eyes and nostrils placed at or near the ends…
…a rare shark with a very large wide mouth and tiny teeth, found in the Pacific Ocean…
…another term for bonnethead.…
…a small SE Asian freshwater fish with a shark-like tail, popular in aquaria…
…a small SE Asian freshwater fish with a shark-like tail, popular in aquaria…
