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man-eating shark
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun man-eating shark has 1 sense
- man-eating shark(n = noun.animal) carcharodon carcharias, great white shark, man-eater, white shark - large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans; Array is a kind of mackerel shark
is a member of carcharodon, genus carcharodon
CIDE DICTIONARY
man-eating shark, n.
A term applied to sharks that attack humans, especially the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias ), a large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas. [WordNet 1.5]
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