lemon shark

lemon shark

n. A large yellowish-brown shark (Negaprion brevirostris) found chiefly in tropical and subtropical coastal waters of the Americas.

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[From its yellowish color.]

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lemon shark - common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerousNegaprion brevirostrisrequiem shark - any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal speciesgenus Negaprion, Negaprion - lemon sharks

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