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单词 man-eater shark
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man-eater shark
a. A shark that attacks humans; spec. the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, or (Australian) the bronze whaler shark, Carcharinus brachyurus. Also man-eater shark.
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man-eater1829
pointer1881
1677 S. Speed Prison-pietie 16 This biting Usurer, or Man-eater, he Is like the Shark that swimmeth in the Sea, Devouring lesser Fish.]
1829 T. C. Haliburton Hist. & Statist. Acct. Nova-Scotia II. 404 Shark species. Man-eater shark.
1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 161 The Shark, among fishermen, is called the ‘maneater’, ‘the shovel-nose’, and ‘the swingle-tail’; these being varieties of the species.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. xviii. 259 To ascertain that the maneater [sc. a shark] had already met his own death.
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 30 Man-eater Shark.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 671 A Shark closely related to our Man-eater.
1923 N.Y. Times 13 Sept. 23/7 (heading) Shark-hunters hook man-eater, then cut line to escape him.
1963 D. G. Stead Sharks & Rays Austral. Seas (1964) viii. 67 The Whaler is often known as the Man-eater Shark... Not that this or any other great shark is essentially a man-eater by regular habit or by preference.
1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 144/2 Carcharodon carcharias. White shark or pointer, man-eater.
1989 S. Stone Kylie Minogue (BNC) As the sexy songbird marvelled at the underwater wildlife, the huge maneater moved in to make a meal of the talented star.
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