blue shark

English

blue shark (Prionace glauca)

Noun

blue shark (plural blue sharks)

1. A long blue shark, resembling a great white shark but smaller, of the species Prionace glauca.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 126:

     The blue shark is long in almost all respects; long snout, long tail, long body, and especially long, curved pectoral fins.

Translations

long blue shark

• Albanian: peshkaqeni jeshil m, peshkaqeni blu m
• Catalan: tintorera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大青鯊／大青鲨

• Corsican: pesciu cane m
• Finnish: sinihai (fi)
• Galician: quenlla (gl) f
• German: Blauhai (de) m
• Irish: siorc gorm m
• Italian: verdesca (it) f
• Japanese: ヨシキリザメ (yoshikirizame), 葦切鮫 (yoshikirizame)
• Maori: matawhā, aupounamu, mangō au pounamu, mangō pounamu, taha pounamu
• Navajo: łóóʼ hashkéhé dootłʼizhígíí
• Ottoman Turkish: پاموق بالغی (pamuk balığı)
• Romanian: rechin albastru (ro) m
• Russian: си́няя аку́ла f (sínjaja akúla), голуба́я аку́ла f (golubája akúla), моко́й (ru) m (mokój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: модруљ m

  Latin: modrulj (sh) m

• Slovak: žralok belasý m, žralok modrý (sk) m, žralok obyčajný m, žralok modrastý m, žralok sivý m
• Spanish: tintorera f
• Swedish: blåhaj (sv) c
• Turkish: pamuk balığı (tr)

Further reading

• blue shark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Prionace glauca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Prionace glauca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons