sharklike

English

Etymology

shark +‎ -like

Adjective

sharklike (comparative more sharklike, superlative most sharklike)

1. Similar to a shark.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 14:

     The first reference to the shark is lost in antiquity; there is an aboriginal drawing in Australia that shows a sharklike creature in the act of eating a man.

2. Similar to that of a shark.

   a sharklike grin; sharklike teeth; a sharklike frenzy

3. (taxonomy, of a fish) Cartilaginous.