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‖ squalus|ˈskweɪləs|
Pl. squali.
[L. squalus, some sea-fish.]
A shark.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v., The squalus with a long⁓pointed and bony snout. Ibid., The smooth squalus with granulous teeth. 1784Ann. Reg. 241 The squalus or true tyger shark, uncommon on our coasts. 1816Tuckey Narr. Exped. R. Zaire ii. (1818) 40 We also took a small squalus, of a species new to us. 1854Badham Halieut. 416 The ancients have left us many lively representations of the sanguinary proceedings of these ill-omened Squali. |