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Meanings of fox shark in English

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

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Examples for "thresher"
Examples for "thresher"
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The plough, the self-binder, the thresher were all invented on the farm.
The French in the Heart of America
2
Then he began to thrash around like a thresher in a barn.
Original Short Stories — Volume 13
3
We haven't got header boxes enough to feed the thresher, I guess.
O Pioneers!
4
The moment they touched, his tail began to beat like a thresher.
Solomon's oak: a novel
5
At Oberinntal, in the Tyrol, the last thresher is called Goat.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
1
The big one looked up and shook his Hussite thrasher at us.
The fifth servant
2
The brown thrasher is a beautiful singer and eats many insects, mostly injurious.
Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
3
The thrasher is a strong fish, twenty feet long, and of great weight.
Fighting the Whales
4
A steam thrasher didn't last long; a horse outlived three automobiles.
One of Ours
5
They are the swordfish, the thrasher, and the killer.
Fighting the Whales
1
A yellowfin tuna, a great barracuda, and, if they had just been a little better prepared, a twenty-foot thresher shark.
The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
2
The sharks in the footage are "pelagic" or "open water" threshers , one of three species of thresher shark.
The Guardian
3
A real thresher shark!
Shadows in Bronze
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Understanding how thresher sharks feed will help with efforts to protect them, Oliver said.
The Guardian
5
The Sword-fish and Thresher Shark also help to destroy this harmless giant of the deep.
Within the Deep / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII...
Usage of fox shark in English
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Let them operate on rats, foxes , sharks, vipers, and reptiles.
An Ethical Problem / Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentat...