Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ichthyology, a section of elasmobranchiate fishes, or selachians, having the gill-slits lateral and plural, five, six, or seven in number; the sharks proper, as distinguished from the Raiæ (rays or skates, with ventral gill-slits) and from the Holocephali (chimeras, with gill-slits a single pair).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.

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Examples

  • Il nostro eroe si trova faccia con degli squali gangster sul fondo del mare.

    No Fat Clips!!! : GRIGORIS LEONTIADES – Dancing Jack 2009

  • As we passed the projecting tooth of Shark Point, a sandspit garnished with mangroves and dotted with palmyras, the land-squali flocked from their dirty-brown thatches to the beach, where flew the symbolic red flag.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • As we passed the projecting tooth of Shark Point, a sandspit garnished with mangroves and dotted with palmyras, the land-squali flocked from their dirty-brown thatches to the beach, where flew the symbolic red flag.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • X« Penduta ifocnrona vocantur, quorum ofciliationes per arcus fimiles, flsqualibus, vel iifdem tem - poribus peraguntur • Sicuti ofciliationes ifochrona illas funt, qi» per arcus fimiles, eodem, ve! squali tempore con - ficiuntur.

    De centro oscillationis ex Galilaeanis legibus determinando mechanica disquisitio Castellano, Filippo 1787

  • Cacciatore di squali, Il (1979) (as Enzo Girolami) ... aka Cazador de tiburones, El (Mexico) (Spain) ... aka Guardians of the Deep (UK: video title) ... aka The Shark Hunter

    Home Theater Forum Jim_K 2010

  • Cacciatore di squali, Il (1979) (as Enzo Girolami) ... aka Cazador de tiburones, El (Mexico) (Spain) ... aka Guardians of the Deep (UK: video title) ... aka The Shark Hunter

    Home Theater Forum Jim_K 2010

  • Cacciatore di squali, Il (1979) (as Enzo Girolami) ... aka Cazador de tiburones, El (Mexico) (Spain) ... aka Guardians of the Deep (UK: video title) ... aka The Shark Hunter

    Home Theater Forum 2010

  • Cacciatore di squali, Il (1979) (as Enzo Girolami) ... aka Cazador de tiburones, El (Mexico) (Spain) ... aka Guardians of the Deep (UK: video title) ... aka The Shark Hunter

    Home Theater Forum 2009

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