thresher (redirected from Thresher sharks)

thresh·er  (thrshr)

n.

1. One that threshes: a thresher of grain.

2. A threshing machine.

3. Any of various large sharks of the genus Alopias, especially A. vulpinus of the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, having a tail with a long whiplike upper lobe with which it strikes the surface of the water.

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thresher

Noun

any of a genus of large sharks occurring in tropical and temperate seas. They have a very long whiplike tail

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	thresher - a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw thrasher, threshing machine farm machine - a machine used in farming
	2.	thresher - large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thresher shark, thrasher shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales Alopius, genus Alopius - type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae