fox shark

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Noun1.Fox shark - large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feedfox shark - large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
Alopius vulpinus, thresher shark, thresher, 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
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