Nurse Shark Definition
noun
Any of various bottom-feeding sharks of the family Ginglymostomatidae, having long barbels near the mouth and feeding chiefly at night, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum of tropical and subtropical waters.
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Synonyms:
- Ginglymostoma cirratum
Other Word Forms of Nurse Shark
Noun
Singular:
nurse shark
Plural:
nurse-sharksOrigin of Nurse Shark
From nurse any of various kinds of dogfishes or sharks alteration of earlier nusse perhaps from earlier and dialectal huss dogfish (by reanalysis of an huss a dogfish) (as a nusse) from Middle English husk of unknown origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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