lamna nasus

1. 1.

   voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific

   Synonymsporbeagle

   Broadermackerel shark

   Part ofLamna

Questions about lamna nasus

What does lamna nasus mean?

lamna nasus means "voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific".

What is another word for lamna nasus?

Close synonyms include porbeagle. 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 lamna nasus a common word?

lamna nasus 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.