shark
Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
Noun 4 meanings
Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
Meat of this animal, consumed as food.
Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
A freshwater fish that resembles a true shark (Selachimorpha) in appearance or movement; a freshwater shark.
Etymology
From Middle English shark (used by Thomas Beckington in 1442 to refer to a kind of fish), of uncertain origin. Most likely from a semantic extension of the German-derived shark (“scoundrel”), see below. The fish was originally called a dogfish or haye in English and Middle English.
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SHARK at a glance
SHARK has 5 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (S 1 + H 4 + A 1 + R 1 + K 5) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,001 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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