Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

walking shark

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables: walk-ing shark
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various species of shark that move by ‘walking’ their fins across the sea bed, especially Hemiscyllium ocellatum (epaulette shark) or Hemiscyllium halmahera.

Example Sentences

"Given the nickname the walking shark, it is about a metre long and stands up on its pectoral and pelvic fins to walk around on the seabed with a sinuous motion, rather like a lizard, hunting molluscs and crustaceans."
""This is the third walking shark species to be described from eastern Indonesia in the past six years, which highlights our tremendous shark and ray biodiversity," said Fahmi, a shark expert at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences."
"One of the recent PR successes of the shark conservationists is the ‘walking shark’, which crawls along the sea bottom on its fins and has an appealing little face."

Inflected Forms

walking sharks (plural)

Questions

What does walking shark mean?: Any of various species of shark that move by ‘walking’ their fins across the sea bed, especially Hemiscyllium ocellatum (epaulette shark) or Hemiscyllium halmahera.

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