Found 2 items, similar to fox shark.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fox shark
fox shark
n : large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used
to round up small fish on which to feed [syn:
thresher,
thrasher,
thresher shark,
Alopius vulpinus]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: fox shark
Thrasher
\Thrash"er\, Thresher
\Thresh"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
machine.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and voracious shark (
Alopias vulpes),
remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
found both upon the American and the European coasts.
Called also
fox shark,
sea ape,
sea fox,
slasher,
swingle-tail, and
thrasher shark.
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3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other
allied species. See
Brown thrush.
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Sage thrasher. (Zo["o]l.) See under
Sage.
Thrasher whale (Zo["o]l.), the common killer of the
Atlantic.
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