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Answer for the clue "Rows around galleon’s bow to listen for giant fish ", 11 letters:
tiger shark

Word definitions for tiger shark in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
For the Marvel Comics version, see Tiger Shark (Marvel Comics) . Tiger Shark is the name of three DC Comics characters.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tiger \Ti"ger\, n. [OE. tigre, F. tigre, L. tigris, Gr. ti`gris; probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per. t[=i]r; perhaps akin to E. stick, v. t.; -- probably so named from its quickness.] A very large and powerful carnivore ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body [syn: Galeocerdo cuvieri ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large shark, ''Galeocerdo cuvier'', common in the mid-Pacific, that hunts alone and has dark stripes across its back.

Usage examples of tiger shark.

There were sharks every day, mainly makos and blue sharks, but also oceanic whitetips, and once a tiger shark straight from the blackest of nightmares.

Hal he called to Tiger Shark, Hal And the big animal plunged forward under him.

This one was about twelve feet long and, from its marking, was surely a tiger shark, one of the flesh eaters.

A large tiger shark wriggled into the sinking boat and chased the inhabitants into the arms of waiting locathah.

It was said that he had received, with great promptness, the foot-wide jaws of a tiger shark, with an apologetic note saying that these were the only unwanted teeth that an extensive search had been able to find off Bondi Beach.

WHEN FRANKLIN FIRST saw Indra Langenburg she was covered with blood up to her elbows and was busily hacking away at the entrails of a ten-foot tiger shark she had just disemboweled.

The left went first, dropping straight down as his strength gave way and he screamed as his foot disappeared into the maw of a Tiger shark that had turned up for the feast.

A Hammerhead or a Tiger Shark, he guessed, with their sharper reactions.

Now they put her in mind, not of an abused child, but a tiger shark.

A tiger shark produces and sheds 24,000 teeth in ten years, a blue shark can travel at over forty miles an hour, a mako shark will sometimes chase boats and jump on board.

Then a black object appeared, which at first glance resembled the dorsal fin of a tiger shark cutting its way through the water.

The tiger shark kept disappearing and then coming back again, moving with increasing speed on each pass, as if making up its mind about something.

The doctor glared at Takkata-Jim as she would look at a tiger shark.