"great white shark" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: great white sharks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} great white shark (plural great white sharks)
  1. A large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of coastal surface waters in all major oceans that feeds on fish and marine mammals. Wikipedia link: great white shark Categories (lifeform): Lamniform sharks Synonyms: great white, white pointer Translations (Carcharodon carcharias): witdoodshai (Afrikaans), قِرْش أَبْيَض عَظِيم (qirš ʔabyaḍ ʕaẓīm) [masculine] (Arabic), սպիտակ շնաձուկ (spitak šnajuk) (Armenian), tauró blanc [masculine] (Catalan), 大白鯊 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 大白鲨 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 大白鯊 (Chinese Cantonese), 大白鲨 (daai⁶ baak⁶ saa¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 大白鯊 (Chinese Mandarin), 大白鲨 (dàbáishā) (Chinese Mandarin), grote witte haai (Dutch), mensenhaai (Dutch), granda blanka ŝarko (Esperanto), valkohai (Finnish), grand requin blanc [masculine] (French), tiburón branco [masculine] (Galician), Weißer Hai [masculine] (German), Menschenhai [masculine] (German), λευκός καρχαρίας (lefkós karcharías) [masculine] (Greek), fehér cápa (Hungarian), hvítháfur [masculine] (Icelandic), siorc bán mór [masculine] (Irish), 頬白鮫 (alt: ホオジロザメ, hōjiro zame, ホホジロザメ, hohojiro zame) (Japanese), 백상아리 (baeksang'ari) (Korean), Carcharodon carcharias (Latin), mangō-taniwha (Maori), mangō-tuatini (Maori), mangō-ururoa (Maori), łóóʼ hashkéhétsoh (Navajo), hvithai [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kvithai [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), żarłacz biały [masculine] (Polish), grande-tubarão-branco [masculine] (Portuguese), tubarão-branco [masculine] (Portuguese), больша́я бе́лая аку́ла (bolʹšája bélaja akúla) [feminine] (Russian), бе́лая аку́ла (bélaja akúla) [feminine] (Russian), аку́ла-людое́д (akúla-ljudojéd) [feminine] (Russian), hacat cooxp (Seri), gran tiburón blanco [masculine] (Spanish), vithaj [common-gender] (Swedish), butanding (Tagalog), büyük beyaz köpekbalığı (Turkish)

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      "code": "sei",
      "lang": "Seri",
      "sense": "Carcharodon carcharias",
      "word": "hacat cooxp"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Carcharodon carcharias",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gran tiburón blanco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Carcharodon carcharias",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vithaj"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "Carcharodon carcharias",
      "word": "butanding"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Carcharodon carcharias",
      "word": "büyük beyaz köpekbalığı"
    }
  ],
  "word": "great white shark"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": tōa-pe̍h-soa vs. zh-min-nan",
  "path": [
    "great white shark"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "great white shark",
  "trace": ""
}

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