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Definition of Fox shark

1. Noun. Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fox Shark

Literary usage of Fox shark

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"There "sa legend that a torpedo was caught here once upon a time; and the thrasher, fox-shark, or sea-fox occasionally alarms the fisherman with his ..."

2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The FOX-SHARK, or BASKING-SHARK Regularly hunted on the wut coatt of Ireland for the tahe of the oil obtainable from itt liver. Note the heel by the tide of ..."

3. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"... in attacking even human beings when swimming, such wonderful stories are often related by travellers. Of Fig. 58.—Thre»her, or fox shark ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"It is said to be not uncommon for a whole herd of dolphins to take flight at the first splash of the tail of a fox shark. From the use which it makes of its ..."

5. Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British by William George Ridewood (1908)
"... borealis (in front of Wall-cases 3 and 4), 15 feet long, caught on the East coast of Scotland in 1878; a Thresher or fox shark, Alopecias Fia. 3. ..."

6. Handbook of the Fishes of New Zealand by R. A. A. Sherrin (1886)
"It is said to be not uncommon for a whole herd of dolphins to take flight at the first splash of the tail of the fox-shark. From the use it makes of its ..."

7. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"fox shark, or ... a whole herd of dolphins to take flight at the first splash of the tail of a fox shark. From the use which it makes of its tail, ..."

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