The Collaborative International Dictionary
Requin
Requin \Re"quin\ (r?"kw?n), n. [F., fr. reqiem a Mass sung for the dead. See Requiem.] (Zo["o]l.) The man-eater, or white shark ( Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.
Wiktionary
requin
n. (context dated English) The white shark (''Carcharodon carcharias'').
Wikipedia
Requin
Requin, shark in French (pl : requins), may refer to :
- Requins de l'Atlantique FC, a football club of Benin playing in the town of Cotonou
- Great Requin River, a river of Grenada
- Little Requin River, a river of Grenada
- Steve Requin (born 1968), a Canadian cartoonist from Québec
- USS Requin (SS-481), a United States Navy Tench-class submarine
- a French submarine seized by Italy during World War II and converted into a cargo submarine
Usage examples of "requin".
Somewhere near the top he fell, and next day a party going to the Dent du Requin found him on the rocks thousands of feet below.