thresher
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9.4
- noun
- /ˈθrɛʃər/
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tiburón martillo
- When hunting, a thresher shark can stun its prey with a swift whip of its tail.
- thresher shark
- thresher, Alopias vulpinus
- bigeye thresher
There must be a giant thresher underneath them deep balling them up in this way.
- There must be a giant thresher underneath them deep balling them up in this way.
Examples
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MAP: Figure 19. Total tagging distribution for the thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, from the NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program during 1962-93.
Academic text (1998) -
MAP: Figure 14. Total tagging distribution for the bigeye thresher, Alopias superciliosus, from the NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program during 1962-93.
Academic text (1998) -
There must be a giant thresher underneath them deep balling them up in this way.
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This beamed back up to us... ...from an 8-foot thresher we threw in the lake.
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It was the thresher!
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I hooked a scup and as I was reeling it in... I hooked a 4.5 foot baby thresher shark who proceeded to eat my boat.
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In the shallows, a fisherman had dumped five smallish thresher sharks that had been caught in gill nets.
Fiction book (1998) -
They injected a blue liquid into the spiraling stomach of a thresher shark that had been delivered to the Abbe in a watertight crate.
Fiction book (1992) -
The thresher shark uses its long tail to herd small fish into tight groups.
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Divers often encounter the graceful thresher shark gliding through warm ocean waters.
Synonyms
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6.8
A large shark from warm seas with a long tail used to stun small fish
A large ocean shark with a long whiplike tail used to hunt small fish
A large shark with a very long tail that it uses to hit small fish
A large shark in warm seas with a long whiplike tail used to herd and stun small fish
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word thresher for the shark comes from the same root thresh, meaning 'to beat' or 'to strike'. The shark got this name because its long, whip-like tail 'threshes' the water to stun and herd fish, so the name links the tail's beating to the idea of threshing.