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porbeagle

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por⋅bea⋅gle

  [pawr-bee-guhl]
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–noun
a shark of the genus Lamna, esp. L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
Origin:
1750–60; < Cornish porghbugel
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por·bea·gle   (pôr'bē'gəl)   
n.  A mackerel shark (Lamna nasus) of temperate Atlantic waters.

[Cornish porbugel.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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