orectolobus barbatus

1. 1.

   shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin

   Synonymscarpet shark

   Broadershark

   Part ofOrectolobus

Questions about orectolobus barbatus

What does orectolobus barbatus mean?

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

What is another word for orectolobus barbatus?

Close synonyms include carpet 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 orectolobus barbatus a common word?

orectolobus barbatus 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.