great white shark
noun
: a large mackerel shark (Carcharodon carcharias) of warm seas that is bluish when young but becomes whitish with age and has been known to attack humans
called also white shark
see shark illustration
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The researchers used a megalodon vertebral column from Belgium, a tooth from the United States, and the chondrocranium – the cartilaginous equivalent of a skull – from a great white shark to build their 3D skeleton. 
Zoe Sottile, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022 Greg Skomal tagged a great white shark while standing on the pulpit of the Aleutian Dream as beachgoers at Nauset Beach watched. Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022 This classic thriller about a man-eating great white shark takes place during the Fourth of July holiday, when the beaches of fictional Amity Island are at their busiest. Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 3 June 2022 Scot, a massive great white shark, has been recorded swimming off the Gulf Coast. Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022 Steve Bruemmer in his bed in Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California shortly before his release on July 13, 2022, three weeks after he was bitten by a great white shark while swimming off the central California coast. Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 21 July 2022 The special includes first-of-its-kind drone footage of three killer whales attacking a great white shark near the shores of South Africa. Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022 This time, a dead great white shark reportedly 7-to-8-feet in length washed ashore on a beach in Long Island, New York. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022 Besides, who wouldn’t want to watch a great white shark’s home movies? Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022 See More
Zoe Sottile, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022 Greg Skomal tagged a great white shark while standing on the pulpit of the Aleutian Dream as beachgoers at Nauset Beach watched. Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022 This classic thriller about a man-eating great white shark takes place during the Fourth of July holiday, when the beaches of fictional Amity Island are at their busiest. Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 3 June 2022 Scot, a massive great white shark, has been recorded swimming off the Gulf Coast. Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022 Steve Bruemmer in his bed in Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California shortly before his release on July 13, 2022, three weeks after he was bitten by a great white shark while swimming off the central California coast. Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 21 July 2022 The special includes first-of-its-kind drone footage of three killer whales attacking a great white shark near the shores of South Africa. Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022 This time, a dead great white shark reportedly 7-to-8-feet in length washed ashore on a beach in Long Island, New York. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022 Besides, who wouldn’t want to watch a great white shark’s home movies? Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1774, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
great white shark
noun
: a large shark (Carcharodon carcharias of the family Lamnidae) that is bluish when young but becomes whitish with age and has been known to attack humans
called also white shark