[ad. Pg. tubarão], obs. forms of TIBURON, a large shark.

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[1521.  Peter Martyr, De nuper repertis insulis, 9. Piscis vorax qui Tuberon vocatur.]

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1555, 1579.  [see TIBURON].

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 76. A shark or tuberon, that lay gaping for the flying fish.

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1665.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 6. When … men swim in the bearing Ocean, the greedy Hayen called Tuberon or Shark … pursue them.

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1784–5.  Chron., in Ann. Reg., 241/1. The dog-fish, or tuberone of Josselyn, never exceeds three feet and a half in length.

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