cookiecutter shark

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cookiecutter shark (plural cookiecutter sharks)

  1. A small shark, Isistius brasiliensis, that tears circular chunks of flesh from its prey.
    • 2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic‎:
      The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.

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