Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shark, Scylliorhinus canicula, a small species abundant in the Mediterranean and vicinity: so named from the spots. See
cat-shark .
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Examples
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Mr. Giddings and the boys were all excited at the thought of getting a harpoon into a huge leopard-shark, which will fight any and everything that swims, as well as many things of flesh which do not swim, not excepting man himself.
Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser
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Mr. Choate judged this fuss to be caused either by a leopard-shark killing its prey, or by some battle royal between two equally big denizens of the deep.
Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser
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