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tiburon|tɪbuːˈrəʊn|
Also 6–7 tiberune, tuberon.
[a. F. tiburon (Joubert Hist. Poiss. 1558), tibéron, tiburin (Littré), Sp. tiburon (tiburónes péces, in Minsheu) = It. tiburino (Florio), Pg. tubarāo. Origin uncertain; prob. taken into Sp. or Pg. from some W. Indian or E. Indian lang.]
A name given by 16–17th c. navigators to one or more large species of shark; applied specifically to the bonnet-headed shark, Reniceps tiburo; now, on the Mexican Pacific coast, to Carcharinus fronto.
1555Eden Decades 201 The Tiburon..is a very great fysshe and very quicke and swifte in the water, and a cruell deuourer... The sayde Tuberon [etc.]. 1565Sir J. Hawkins 2nd Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 22 Many sharks or Tuberons..came about the ships [Sierra Leone]. [1579T. Stevens Let. fr. Goa in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 161 There waited on our ship [in the Atlantic within the Tropics] fishes as long as a man, which they cal Tuberones. 1598W. Phillip Linschoten i. xlviii. (Hakl. Soc.) II. 12 There is in the rivers, and also in the Sea along the coast of India great store of fishes, which the Portingalls call Tubaron or Hayen. ]1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea 68 The shark, or tiberune, is a fish like unto those which wee call dogge-fishes, but that he is farre greater. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 728 Fish common to both oceans..sword fish, saw fish, tiburones, manitis. |