angel shark in English

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1
an active bottom-dwelling cartilaginous fish with broad winglike pectoral fins.
Miller and Turner speculate the shark may have resembled an angel shark , a ray-like bottom-dweller found in most temperate and tropical oceans.
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1. In April 2008, the UK government afforded the angel shark full protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

2. European examples include the angel shark and common skate, both once common features in European fish markets, now virtually extinct.

3. As nouns the difference between squat and Crouch is that squat is a position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet or squat can be the angel shark (genus squatina ) while Crouch is