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Noun: lemon shark
  1. Common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous
    "Lemon sharks often gather in large groups near mangrove forests";
    - Negaprion brevirostris

Derived forms: lemon sharks

Type of: requiem shark

Part of: genus Negaprion, Negaprion

Encyclopedia: Lemon shark