[ad. Pg. tubarão], obs. forms of TIBURON, a large shark.
[1521. Peter Martyr, De nuper repertis insulis, 9. Piscis vorax qui Tuberon vocatur.]
1555, 1579. [see TIBURON].
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 76. A shark or tuberon, that lay gaping for the flying fish.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 6. When … men swim in the bearing Ocean, the greedy Hayen called Tuberon or Shark … pursue them.
1784–5. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 241/1. The dog-fish, or tuberone of Josselyn, never exceeds three feet and a half in length.
