file-tail shark

noun

: a small dark brown shark (Parmaturus xaniurus) of the coast or southern and Lower California having a broad crowded band of enlarged scales on the upper edge of the tail

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Rhymes for file-tail shark

• arc
• ark
• bark
• barque
• dark
• hark
• lark
• marc
• mark
• marque
• narc
• quark