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Meanings of thresher 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.

Usage of thresher shark in English
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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
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The sharks in the footage are "pelagic" or "open water" threshers , one of three species of thresher shark.
The Guardian
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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
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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...
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How does the Thresher Shark hunt its prey?
Within the Deep / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII...
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Thresher sharks use their impressive tails to stun several prey at once with sharp "tail slaps", scientists have confirmed.
BBC
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Looking like big bluish shadows, thresher sharks went by, eight feet long and gifted with an extremely acute sense of smell.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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Records from fisheries published in 2003 revealed that numbers of thresher sharks have fallen by 75% in just 15 years through overfishing.
The Guardian