1. Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
   "The thresher shark used its long tail to stun the school of fish";
   - thresher, thrasher, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus

Derived forms: thresher sharks

Type of: shark

Part of: Alopius, genus Alopius

Encyclopedia: Thresher shark