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

1 sense of nurse shark

Sense 1
nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum -- (small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia)
       => shark -- (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)