| 单词 | bone shark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone shark bone shark n. the basking shark, Cetorhinus maxmus. [Probably so called on account of its prominent gills, thought to resemble the whalebone of baleen whales.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of family Cetorhinidae (basking shark) fish-mariner1605 sail-fish1605 pricker1701 sunfish1734 basking-shark1769 bone shark1802 hoe-mother1805 1802 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VIII. 199 There is a large shark in the harbour, named the bone-shark, and similar in shape to the man-eating shark. 1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 590/1 The tiger shark of the Indian Ocean and the ‘bone shark’. 2006 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 25 July 2 The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), also known as the bone shark, is the second largest fish. < as lemmas |
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