carcharhinus obscurus

1. 1.

   relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters

   Synonymsdusky shark

   Broaderrequiem shark

   Part ofCarcharhinus

Questions about carcharhinus obscurus

What does carcharhinus obscurus mean?

carcharhinus obscurus means "relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters".

What is another word for carcharhinus obscurus?

Close synonyms include dusky shark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carcharhinus obscurus a common word?

carcharhinus obscurus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.