grey nurse shark

English

Noun

grey nurse shark (plural grey nurse sharks)

1. Any shark of the family Odontaspididae.
2. A common and cosmopolitan species of shark, Carcharias taurus, family Odontaspididae.

   Synonyms: sand tiger shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark, blue-nurse sand tiger

See also

• sand shark (Odontaspididae spp.)
• tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
• nurse shark (Ginglymostomatidae spp.)

Further reading

• “grey nurse shark”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• grey nurse shark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia