tiger shark

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A large voracious shark (Galeocerdo cuvieri) of tropical waters, having a grayish-brown color with vertical bars along the sides.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A large and voracious shark, Galeocerdo maculatus or Stegostoma tigrinum, more or less marked with yellow, of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific; the zebra-shark.

Wiktionary

1. n. A large shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, common in the mid-Pacific, that hunts alone and has dark stripes across its back.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) a voracious shark (Galeocerdo tigrinus syn. Galeocerdo maculatus) more or less barred or spotted with yellow. It is found in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Called also zebra shark.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body