Dictionary

mako shark en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori makō (“shark”), a Southern Māori dialect form of the more standard mangō (“shark”).

Meanings

1. Either of two powerful mackerel sharks of the genus Isurus, having a large heavy body, a sharp nose and a nearly symmetrical tail, found in southern oceans.
   • ‘Aguedo fell through the floor into what we call the shark pool. We call it that because it is a pool filled with sharks. Mako sharks, to be precise.’ 2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 101:
   • He was a very big Mako shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. 1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 100:

Forms

Translations (11)

ko 청상아리 (shark species) · ru аку́ла-ма́ко (shark species) · ast marraxu (shark species) · mi mako (shark species) · cs mako (shark species) · ru ма́ко (shark species) · pt anequim (shark species) · pl ostronos (shark species) · pt tubarão-anequim (shark species) · ast marraxu azul (shark species) · mi ngutukao (shark species)