The Collaborative International Dictionary
man-eating shark \man-eating shark\ n. A term applied to sharks that attack humans, especially the great white shark ( Carcharodon carcharias), a large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas.
Syn: great white shark, white shark, man-eater, Carcharodon carcharias.
WordNet
n. large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans [syn: great white shark, white shark, man-eater, Carcharodon carcharias]
Usage examples of "man-eating shark".
Scores of men murdering each other on a raft in the middle of the ocean, the survivors subsisting on human flesh and then being saved from being devoured by a man-eating shark through the divine intervention of a sea serpent that kills the shark.
She was easy in her movements, capable, in charge of herself, not the sort of woman who'd try killing a man-eating shark out of revenge.
From the floor rose sharp-pointed stalagmites, the crystals glimmering like the fangs of a man-eating shark.
The fierce brown hills of Africa lay two thousand feet below him, the black stone crests bared like the teeth of a man-eating shark.