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Definition of Great blue shark

1. Noun. Slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Blue Shark

Literary usage of Great blue shark

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

1. Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British by William George Ridewood (1908)
"... surrounded by Great a mahogany rail, are a great blue shark, ... and those of a great blue shark much larger than the one shown on this table. ..."

2. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1883)
"great blue shark. " Snout very long, nostrils rather nearer to the mouth than to the extremity of the snout; no labial fold except a groove at the angle of ..."

3. Greek Biology and Medicine by Henry Osborn Taylor (1922)
"It is found in the great blue shark of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; but this creature grows to a very large size before it breeds, and such great ..."

4. Winners in Life's Race, Or, The Great Backboned Family by Arabella Burton Buckley (1882)
"happen that a large dark body moves between us and the surface, as the Great Blue Shark, or one of his smaller relations, ploughs his way through the water. ..."

5. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"A closely related genus is Prionace, its species Prionace glauca, the great blue shark, being slender and swift, with the dorsal farther back than in ..."

6. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"great blue shark. Snout very long; color grayish blue. A large shark, rare on our coast. (Eu.) (Lat., grayish blue.) «o. First dorsal not far behind ..."

7. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"The great blue shark reaches the coast of both Europe and the US, and the tiger shark, common in the Indo-Pacific, also reaches the Atlantic coast of the US ..."

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