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形容詞

sharklike (comparative more sharklike, superlative most sharklike)

1. Similar to a shark; like a shark
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 125:

     They wallowed lazily, nibbling bits of sea grass, their dorsal fins sometimes cutting through the water, sharklike.

   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 14:

     The first reference to the shark is lost in antiquity; there is an aboriginal drawing in Australia that shows a sharklike creature in the act of eating a man.

2. Similar to that of a shark.

   a sharklike grin; sharklike teeth; a sharklike frenzy

3. (taxonomy, of a fish) Cartilaginous.