grey nurse shark
English
Noun
grey nurse shark (plural grey nurse sharks)
- Any shark of the family Odontaspididae.
- A common and cosmopolitan species of shark, Carcharias taurus, family Odontaspididae.
- Synonyms: sand tiger shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark, blue-nurse sand tiger
See also
- sand shark (Odontaspididae spp.)
- tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
- nurse shark (Ginglymostomatidae spp.)
Further reading
- “grey nurse shark”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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