nurse shark

1. 1.

   small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia

   SynonymsGinglymostoma cirratum

   Broadershark

   Part ofGinglymostoma

Questions about nurse shark

What does nurse shark mean?

nurse shark means "small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia".

What is another word for nurse shark?

Close synonyms include Ginglymostoma cirratum. 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 nurse shark a common word?

nurse 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.