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nurse shark

DEFINITIONS OF: nurse shark

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n small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia

Synonyms:
Ginglymostoma cirratum
Type of:
shark
any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
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