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thresher shark
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Definition of THRESHER SHARK
: a large nearly cosmopolitan shark (Alopias vulpinus) that has a greatly elongated curved upper lobe of the tail which is often used to thresh the water to round up the schooling fish on which it feeds — see shark illustration
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First Known Use of THRESHER SHARK
1888
Rhymes with THRESHER SHARK
accent mark, acritarch, antiquark, cutty sark, deutsche mark, disembark, double-park, great white shark, hierarch, Joan of Arc, make one's mark, matriarch, meadowlark, metalmark, minipark, oligarch, paperbark, patriarch, Plimsoll mark, question mark, service mark, stringybark, telemark, tiger shark, trierarch, watermark, water park
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