hammer-headed shark

noun

The hammerhead shark

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Meanings

nounhammer-headed shark (plural hammer-headed sharks)

plural hammer-headed sharks

  1. datedThe hammerhead shark

    In Yam, one of the Torres Straits Islands, two brothers named Sigai and Maiau were worshipped in a shrine under the form of a hammer-headed shark and a crocodile respectively.

    1906, James George Frazer, Attis, Otis, Osiris, page 139
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