Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun carcharinus_longimanus

1 sense of carcharinus longimanus

Sense 1
whitetip shark, oceanic whitetip shark, white-tipped shark, Carcharinus longimanus -- (large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin; worldwide distribution; most dangerous shark)
       => requiem shark -- (any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species)