carcharhinus plumbeus

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   most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen

   Synonymssandbar shark

   Broaderrequiem shark

   Part ofCarcharhinus

Questions about carcharhinus plumbeus

What does carcharhinus plumbeus mean?

carcharhinus plumbeus means "most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen".

What is another word for carcharhinus plumbeus?

Close synonyms include sandbar 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 plumbeus a common word?

carcharhinus plumbeus 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.