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单词 porbeagle
释义

porbeagle

noun

por·​bea·​gle ˈpȯr-ˌbē-gəl How to pronounce porbeagle (audio)
: a viviparous mackerel shark (Lamna nasus) chiefly of the North Atlantic and southwestern Pacific oceans with a pointed snout and crescent-shaped tail

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Another common offshore species is the porbeagle shark. Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019 Skomal said porbeagles look similar to mako and great white sharks. Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019 Tracking a wide range of species — blue shark, tiger shark, shortfin mako, great hammerhead, scalloped hammerhead, porbeagle, and dusky shark — the researchers sought to visualize all the human infrastructure that sharks must navigate. Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, 26 July 2018 The catch follows a story in June last year when another group caught a porbeagle off the coast of Whitby. Nathan Sandhu, Fox News, 16 May 2018 The victim, aged 21, was bitten on the leg by a porbeagle shark after it was hauled onto the vessel 'Govenek of Ladram' in one of their fishing nets. John Bett, Fox News, 14 May 2018

Word History

Etymology

Cornish porgh-bugel

First Known Use

1758, in the meaning defined above

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