The Collaborative International Dictionary
Great White shark \Great White shark\ a large shark ( Carcharodon carcharias, class Chondrichtyes) usually found in warm seas. When young it is bluish but it becomes white with age. It grows to over 15 feet in length and is feared as a man-eater. Also called white shark and great white.
Wiktionary
n. A large shark, ''Carcharodon carcharias'', of coastal surface waters in all major oceans that feeds on fish and marine mammals.
WordNet
n. large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans [syn: white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias]
Wikipedia
The Great White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as the Great White, White Pointer, White shark, or White Death, is a species of large lamniform shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans. The Great White shark is notable for its size, with mature female individuals growing up to in length and in weight. However most are smaller, males measuring and females on average. According to a 2014 study the lifespan of great white sharks is estimated to be as long as 70 years or more, well above older estimates, making it one of the longest lived cartilaginous fish currently known. According to the same study, male great white sharks take 26 years to reach sexual maturity, while the females take 33 years to be ready to produce offspring. Great white sharks can accelerate to over for short bursts.
The Great White shark has no known natural predators other than the Orca Whale. The Great White shark is arguably the world's largest known extant macropredatory fish, and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals. It is also known to prey upon a variety of other marine animals, including fish and seabirds. It is the only known surviving species of its genus Carcharodon, and is ranked first in having the most recorded attacks on humans. The IUCN list the great white shark as a vulnerable species, while it is included in Appendix II of CITES.
The bestselling novel Jaws by Peter Benchley and the subsequent blockbuster film by Steven Spielberg depicted the great white shark as a "ferocious man eater". Humans are not the preferred prey of the great white shark, but, nevertheless, the great white is responsible for the largest number of reported and identified fatal unprovoked shark attacks on humans.
The Great White Shark or simply Great White, formerly Warren White, is a fictional comic book supervillain owned by DC Comics who exists in that company's DC Universe.
Usage examples of "great white shark".
A set of jaws from a real great white shark, its wicked teeth intact, jutted from the wood-paneled wall behind the bar.
A manlike form went down, but a ninety-foot great white shark surfaced.
The tall fin of a great white shark was circling the wreckage in search of new prey.
This was the king of all selachians-Carcharodon-the Great White Shark.
I can't become a television set or a great white shark or even a female.
The beast was a dog of some kind - in the same way that a great white shark was a fish of some kind.
A great white shark came by for a while, and cirded the vessel several times, but most of the time the sky and sea were deserted, and the only sound came from some part of The Samarkand, a board creaking, a knot grinding, as though the boat, like its owner, was starting to doubt its own existence, and was making a noise to remind itself that it was still real.