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wobbegong

[wob-ee-gong]

noun

Australian.
  1. the carpet shark.



wobbegong

/ ˈwɒbɪˌɡɒŋ /

noun

  1. an Australian carpet shark, Orectolobus maculatus , with brown-and-white skin

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wobbegong1

First recorded in 1850–55; perhaps from an Australian Aboriginal language
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wobbegong1

from a native Australian language
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Example Sentences

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And, brother, are there a lot of varieties — hammerhead shark, walking shark, whale shark, tawny nurse shark, pajama shark, pelagic thresher, tiger shark, tasselled wobbegong shark, puffadder shy shark, baby shark, mommy shark and daddy shark, to name but a few.

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The shark exhibit, which opened June 30 on Brooklyn’s Coney Island, opens with a tunnel overhead that showcases a colorful Indo-Pacific reef and the sort of sharks that thrive there — wobbegong, white-tips and black-tips.

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At one point, they didn't even seem to notice a bottom-dwelling wobbegong shark sneaking up.

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There are three sandbar sharks at the zoo, as well as blacktip reef sharks, nurse sharks, a sand tiger shark and a Japanese wobbegong.

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A single blood sample was extracted from a wobbegong shark at Melbourne Aquarium, .

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