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Significados de thresher shark em inglês

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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"
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        The plough, the self-binder, the thresher were all invented on the farm.
        The French in the Heart of America
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        Then he began to thrash around like a thresher in a barn.
        Original Short Stories — Volume 13
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        We haven't got header boxes enough to feed the thresher, I guess.
        O Pioneers!
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        The moment they touched, his tail began to beat like a thresher.
        Solomon's oak: a novel
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        At Oberinntal, in the Tyrol, the last thresher is called Goat.
        The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
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        The big one looked up and shook his Hussite thrasher at us.
        The fifth servant
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        The brown thrasher is a beautiful singer and eats many insects, mostly injurious.
        Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
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        The thrasher is a strong fish, twenty feet long, and of great weight.
        Fighting the Whales
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        A steam thrasher didn't last long; a horse outlived three automobiles.
        One of Ours
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        They are the swordfish, the thrasher, and the killer.
        Fighting the Whales
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        Let them operate on rats, foxes , sharks, vipers, and reptiles.
        An Ethical Problem / Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentat...
        Uso de thresher shark em inglês
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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