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Noun: nurse shark
  1. Small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia
    "The nurse shark rested motionless on the sandy bottom";
    - Ginglymostoma cirratum

Derived forms: nurse sharks

Type of: shark

Part of: genus Ginglymostoma, Ginglymostoma

Encyclopedia: Nurse shark