Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ichthyology, a section of elasmobranchiate fishes, or selachians, having the gill-slits lateral and plural, five, six, or seven in number; the sharks proper, as distinguished from the Raiæ (rays or skates, with ventral gill-slits) and from the Holocephali (chimeras, with gill-slits a single pair).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.
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Examples
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Il nostro eroe si trova faccia con degli squali gangster sul fondo del mare.
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As we passed the projecting tooth of Shark Point, a sandspit garnished with mangroves and dotted with palmyras, the land-squali flocked from their dirty-brown thatches to the beach, where flew the symbolic red flag.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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As we passed the projecting tooth of Shark Point, a sandspit garnished with mangroves and dotted with palmyras, the land-squali flocked from their dirty-brown thatches to the beach, where flew the symbolic red flag.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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De centro oscillationis ex Galilaeanis legibus determinando mechanica disquisitio Castellano, Filippo 1787
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Cacciatore di squali, Il (1979) (as Enzo Girolami) ... aka Cazador de tiburones, El (Mexico) (Spain) ... aka Guardians of the Deep (UK: video title) ... aka The Shark Hunter
Home Theater Forum Jim_K 2010
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Cacciatore di squali, Il (1979) (as Enzo Girolami) ... aka Cazador de tiburones, El (Mexico) (Spain) ... aka Guardians of the Deep (UK: video title) ... aka The Shark Hunter
Home Theater Forum Jim_K 2010
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Cacciatore di squali, Il (1979) (as Enzo Girolami) ... aka Cazador de tiburones, El (Mexico) (Spain) ... aka Guardians of the Deep (UK: video title) ... aka The Shark Hunter
Home Theater Forum 2010
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Cacciatore di squali, Il (1979) (as Enzo Girolami) ... aka Cazador de tiburones, El (Mexico) (Spain) ... aka Guardians of the Deep (UK: video title) ... aka The Shark Hunter
Home Theater Forum 2009
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