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Sunfish :: Sunfish (n.) The basking, or liver, shark..

Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Sea Ape :: Sea ape () The thrasher shark.

Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish..

Plagiostomi :: Plagiostomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; -- called also Plagiostomata.

Chondropterygii :: Chondropterygii (n. pl.) A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter..

Gangetic :: Gangetic (a.) Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangetic shark..

Shovelhead :: Shovelhead (n.) A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark..

Hybodont :: Hybodont (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones..

Sharking :: Sharking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shar.

Hybodus :: Hybodus (n.) An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth..

Galei :: Galei (n. pl.) That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

Squalid :: Squali (n. pl.) The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.

Shark :: Shark (v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas..

Heterocercal :: Heterocercal (a.) Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks..

Thresher :: Thresher (n.) 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..

Foxfish :: Foxfish (n.) The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark..

Swingletree :: Swingletail (n.) The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher..

Shark :: Shark (v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper..

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