Definition of Nurse shark

1. Noun. Small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia.

Exact synonyms: Ginglymostoma Cirratum
Generic synonyms: Shark
Group relationships: Genus Ginglymostoma, Ginglymostoma

Definition of Nurse shark

1. Noun. Any of various bottom-dwelling sharks of the family ''Ginglymostomatidae'' that have two fleshy barbels hanging from the lower jaw. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nurse Shark

nurse-ins
nurse-midwife
nurse-patient relation
nurse-patient relations
nurse administrators
nurse anaesthetists
nurse clinician
nurse clinicians
nurse epidemiologist
nurse log
nurse midwives
nurse practitioner
nurse practitioners
nurse shark
nurse sharks
nursed
nursehound
nursehounds
nurseless
nurselike
nurseling
nursemaid
nursemaid's elbow
nursemaided
nursemaiding
nursemaids
nursepond
nurseponds

Literary usage of Nurse shark

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

1. Sharks of Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico by Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch (2000)
"nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum ee IDENTIFICATION DISTRIBUTION The nurse shark has a very large second dorsal fin, a first dorsal fin located far back ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Commercial manures seem to be slower in bringing "treed" land into condition again than are stable manure and green crops. Nurse-shark, a name given by ..."

3. Best Dives of the Caribbean by Joyce Huber (2006)
"Thinking hard, the dive master remembered a big old nurse shark who could be found ... The nurse shark, true to its calm reputation, just kept sleeping. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"Nurse-shark, a name given by American fishermen to several different kinds of shark, as the Sleeper (Somniosus microcephalus), and especially a voracious ..."

5. The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions by Addison Emery Verrill (1902)
"... taken for their oil is called by the fisherman the "nurse shark," but it is ... northern nurse-shark.* It may be the " Cat-shark " or " Gata," of which ..."

6. Best Dives of the Bahamas & Bermuda, Florida Keys, Turks & Caicos by Joyce Huber (2000)
"Thinking hard, the divemaster remembered a big old nurse shark who could be found ... The nurse shark, true to its calm reputation, just kept sleeping. ..."

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