whitetip shark

Questions about whitetip shark

What does whitetip shark mean?

whitetip shark means "smooth dogfish of Pacific and Indian Oceans and Red Sea having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for whitetip shark?

Close synonyms include reef whitetip shark, Triaenodon obseus, oceanic whitetip shark, white-tipped shark, Carcharinus longimanus. 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 whitetip shark a common word?

whitetip 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.