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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Either of two mackerel sharks of the genus Isurus, characterized by a large heavy body and a nearly symmetrical tail.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The tiger-shark (which see). The teeth of the make are used for ornaments by the Maoris.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mako shark

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zool.) Same as mako shark.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific

Etymologies

  1. Maori. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee That'll teach him to touch a severed mako head. Aug 19, 2009

  • chained_bear "A mako once bit Murph so badly that he had to be helicoptered back to shore. (Touching even a severed mako head can trigger it to bite.) The rule for mako is that they're not considered safe until they're on ice in the hold."
    —Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1997 (NY: HarperCollins, 1999), 56 Aug 19, 2009

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