[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.
17845. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 241/1. The dog-fish, or tuberone of Josselyn, never exceeds three feet and a half in length.