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

Placoides :: Placoides (n. pl.) A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.

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

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

Cartilaginous :: Cartilaginous (a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks..

Sea Fox :: Sea fox () The thrasher shark. See Thrasher.

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

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..

Shovelnose :: Shovelnose (n.) A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil..

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

Amphistylic :: Amphistylic (a.) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull..

Placoid :: Placoid (n.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks..

Dogfish :: Dogfish (n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc..

Sharking :: Sharking (n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices..

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

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

Man-eater :: Man-eater (n.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh..

Houndfish :: Houndfish (n.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish..

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

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