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porbeagle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun porbeagle has 1 sense
- porbeagle(n = noun.animal) lamna nasus - voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific; Array is a kind of mackerel shark
is a member of genus lamna, lamna
CIDE DICTIONARY
porbeagle, n.
A species of shark (Lamna cornubica ), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
porbeagle, n. a large shark, Lamna nasus, having a pointed snout.
Etymology
18th-c. Corn. dial., of unkn. orig.
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