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blue shark
noun
- a slender, pelagic shark, Prionace glauca, that is indigo blue above, shading to white below.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blue shark1
First recorded in 1665–75
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Example Sentences
It’s the latest turn in a career that’s “taken me to different waters,” as she writes from a lab in the Netherlands, including studying blue sharks off the North Atlantic and “charismatic” Port Jackson sharks in Australia.
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So the fishermen always kill a blue shark if they have the chance of doing so, and sometimes destroy eight or ten in a single day.
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A blue shark adorned his forehead; a broad bar, of the same colour, traversed his face.
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It takes five teeth of the blue shark to fill the same number of inches.
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