genus alopius

English Thesaurus

1. type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish genus,
definition	:	any of various genus of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thrasher, thresher, thresher shark,
definition	:	large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	alopiidae, family alopiidae,
definition	:	thresher sharks (noun.animal)