| 单词 | megalodon shark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmegalodon shark 2. In full megalodon shark. An enormous extinct shark, Carcharocles megalodon, of the early Miocene to the late Pliocene epoch. Also figurative: something large, ferocious, voracious, etc.The classification of the species has proved difficult, and it has been placed in several different genera. ΚΠ 1876 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 86 A tooth exhibited of the megalodon shark is 5½ inches long and 4½ inches broad at the base. 1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 49/1 Based on the size of these teeth, it is estimated the Megalodon must have been 120 feet long, or larger than any modern whale. 2001 D. B. Mason Last Summer at Barebones (2002) 19 There was no use telling myself I hadn't meant it... I knew I'd meant it. The megalodon of my anger was alive and well. 2010 S. Kean Disappearing Spoon (2011) xv. 261 Paleontologists determined (just from the teeth!) that this Jaws, dubbed the megalodon, grew to approximately fifty feet, weighed approximately fifty tons, and could swim approximately fifty miles per hour. < as lemmas |
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