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Definition of angel shark in English: angel sharknoun A large, active bottom-dwelling cartilaginous fish with broad winglike pectoral fins. Family Squatinidae and genus Squatina: several species, in particular S. squatina (also called monkfish) Example sentencesExamples - Miller and Turner speculate the shark may have resembled an angel shark, a ray-like bottom-dweller found in most temperate and tropical oceans.
- I hoped to encounter a much bigger creature, and after ascending 20m back up the cliff face through schools of pink and orange Atlantic damselfish, our guide signalled that he had indeed found a large angel shark buried in the sand below.
- Anglers are wrongly referred to as monkfish by fishmongers, though monkfish are in fact angel sharks.
- Then, like the lightning fast angel sharks of today, they would spring forth and grab their prey.
- The action is an attempt to reverse the alarming declines over the past decade of previously plentiful species including red snapper, angel sharks and abalone.
Definition of angel shark in US English: angel sharknounˈānjəl SHärk A large, active bottom-dwelling cartilaginous fish with broad winglike pectoral fins. Family Squatinidae and genus Squatina: several species, in particular the Atlantic angel shark (S. dumerili) Example sentencesExamples - Then, like the lightning fast angel sharks of today, they would spring forth and grab their prey.
- Miller and Turner speculate the shark may have resembled an angel shark, a ray-like bottom-dweller found in most temperate and tropical oceans.
- I hoped to encounter a much bigger creature, and after ascending 20m back up the cliff face through schools of pink and orange Atlantic damselfish, our guide signalled that he had indeed found a large angel shark buried in the sand below.
- Anglers are wrongly referred to as monkfish by fishmongers, though monkfish are in fact angel sharks.
- The action is an attempt to reverse the alarming declines over the past decade of previously plentiful species including red snapper, angel sharks and abalone.
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