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blue shark
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blue shark
n.
A pelagic shark (Prionace glauca) of tropical and temperate oceans that is a brilliant dark blue on top. It occasionally attacks people.
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Noun1.blue shark - slender cosmopolitan, pelagic sharkblue shark - slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters
requiem shark - any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species
genus Prionace, Prionace - blue sharks


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Blue whales, orcas, blue sharks and thresher sharks were once a common sight off the coast of Cornwall, according to scientists from the census of marine life.
Shark Trust Chairman Richard Pierce said blue sharks were rare in the North Sea and added: "It is not alarming but it is unusual for one to be spotted so close to shore.
Since the mid-1950s blue sharks have declined by 96.
 
 
 
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