blue pointer, noun phrase
- Forms:
- Also with initial capitals.
- Origin:
- Australian EnglishShow more Transferred use of Australian English blue pointer the shark Isurus glaucus; the shark Carcharodon carcharias is called white pointer in Australian English.
?obsolescent
In KwaZulu-Natal: the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias of the Lamnidae.
1949 J.L.B. Smith Sea Fishes of Sn Afr. 49Blue-Pointer (Durban). White-Pointer or Man-Eater (General).
1973 J.L.B. Smith in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. IX. 605Man-eater (Carcharodon carcharias),..In Natal it is called the blue-pointer, elsewhere the white-pointer or the white death shark or the great white shark.
the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias of the Lamnidae.
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