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soupfin

DEFINITIONS OF: soupfin

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n Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)

Synonyms:
Galeorhinus zyopterus, soup-fin, soupfin shark
Type of:
requiem shark
any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species
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