cow shark

cow shark

n (Animals) any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters. Also called: six-gilled shark

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cow shark - large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seasHexanchus griseus, six-gilled sharkshark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scalesgenus Hexanchus, Hexanchus - a genus of Hexanchidae