blue shark

noun

1. a slender, pelagic shark, Prionace glauca, that is indigo blue above, shading to white below.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blue shark¹

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

The country also catches about 5,000 tons of blue shark on top of an unknown volume of coastal shark species—including various hammerhead species, which are nationally protected and illegal to catch in Brazil.

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Brazil's environmental protection agency, Ibama, estimated that approximately 11,000 blue sharks and shortfin mako sharks were killed to make up a haul of that size.

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Cape fur seals enjoy dining on the energy-rich livers of blue sharks.

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The blue sharks, which have a bigger appetite for hypoxia-tolerant squid and octopuses, still swam into places with lower oxygen.

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Most of the new species listed are from the requiem shark family, which includes the tiger, bull and blue sharks.

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