great white shark
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- noun
- /ɡreɪt waɪt ʃɑrk/
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tiburón blanco
- One of their predators is the great white shark, which reaches lengths as huge as 20 feet.
- keep a great white shark
It could be a whale shark or a great white shark with melanism.
- It could be a whale shark or a great white shark with melanism.
- But it turns out that these juvenile great white sharks are not aggressive towards humans usually.
- I mean, I could have easily have slipped into the mouth of a great white shark.
- Well, the Smithsonian just did a story which we can link to how great white sharks and all sharks might use magnetics to navigate.
- When I was younger, I really wanted to see great white sharks in the wild because I I just think they're beautiful animals, still do.
- OK, originally I started with great white sharks.
- Unless you have that, you're just like a a minnow in a sea of great white sharks.
Examples
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A silent hunter, the great white shark stalks its prey with near invisibility, its attack both unstoppable and fatal.
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We want to swim with great white sharks outside the cage.
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- I want to swim with a great white shark.
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Try to swim away from a great white shark.
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Her future goals include diving with great white sharks.
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But it turns out that these juvenile great white sharks are not aggressive towards humans usually.
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The great white shark has the ability to heal from severe trauma in no time at all!
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And of course there is the great white shark, which lurks in large numbers in the waters off Australia's southern coast.
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When Ian Gordon watched a great white shark glide through the tank at Ocean World in Sydney, Australia, he was ecstatic.
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Many beachgoers were thrilled to see a great white shark swimming close to the shore.
Synonyms
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A very large powerful shark with sharp teeth that sometimes attacks people
A very large shark called the great white that sometimes attacks people
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'great' (very large) + 'white' (color) + 'shark' (large predatory fish); a learner who knows the constituent words will understand it refers to a large white shark. This is a straightforward compositional animal name (a species label) and follows common cross-linguistic naming patterns, so it is immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Great white shark The name probably comes from people long ago who saw a very big shark with a pale white belly and called it great for its size. That strong picture is why the name means the large, powerful shark we know today.