squalusn.
/ˈskweɪləs/ A shark.
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squalus1753
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Noah's Ark1945
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The squalus with a long~pointed and bony snout.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The smooth squalus with granulous teeth.
1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Chron. 241/1 The squalus or true tyger shark, uncommon on our coasts.
1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) ii. 40 We also took a small squalus, of a species new to us.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 416 The ancients have left us many lively representations of the sanguinary proceedings of these ill-omened Squali.
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