carpet shark

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   shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin

   SynonymsOrectolobus barbatus

   Broadershark

   Part ofOrectolobus

Questions about carpet shark

What does carpet shark mean?

carpet shark means "shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin".

What is another word for carpet shark?

Close synonyms include Orectolobus barbatus. 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 carpet shark a common word?

carpet shark 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.