Any of various dogfishes or sharks; (now) esp. (more fully grey nurse) the Australian shark Odontaspis arenarius (family Odontaspididae) of shallow…

= nurse, n.2

a small carpet shark of the Indo-Pacific, Stegostoma fasciatum (family Stegostomatidae), the adult of which has a pale body with numerous small dark…

A broad-headed brownish shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum (family Orectolobidae), of warm, mainly Atlantic waters, with barbels on the snout (more fully…

Any of various slow-moving, bottom-dwelling sharks of the family Orectolobidae, esp. of the genus Orectolobus, having a broad flattened body…

Zoology. As the name of various fishes (see quots.). Also attributive.

a shark of the genus Orectolobus having spots on the back suggesting the pattern of a carpet.