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tiger shark

noun

  1. a large shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, inhabiting warm seas, noted for its voracious habits.


tiger shark

noun

  1. a voracious omnivorous requiem shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, chiefly of tropical waters, having a striped or spotted body
  2. any of certain other spotted sharks, such as Stegostoma tigrinum, of the Indian Ocean
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tiger shark1

First recorded in 1775–85
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Example Sentences

Surfing to Survive Coming face-to-face with an overzealous tiger shark, this surfer brawls with his unexpected attacker.

They belonged to the species known as the tiger shark, and bore no resemblance to our ghastly visitor of the preceding evening.

Their skins were a mottled brown and yellow, like the crustacean-feeding "tiger shark" of Port Jack-son.

In the boiling wake of the whaleboat I could see a dozen triangular fins—the fins of the real tiger shark of the tropics.

You know the South Seas, and you know that the tiger shark, like the bald-face grizzly of Alaska, never gives trail.

Kroger says the teeth are in multiple rows, like a tiger shark's.

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