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French submarine Requin (1924) USS Requin (SS-481), a United States Navy Tench-class submarine; a French submarine seized by Italy during World War II and converted into a cargo submarine; HMS Requin − brig of the French Navy launched in 1794 that the British Royal Navy captured in 1795 and that was wrecked in 1801.
The common name requiem shark may be related to the French word for shark, requin, which is itself of disputed etymology.One derivation of the latter is from Latin requiem ("rest"), which would thereby create a cyclic etymology (requiem-requin-requiem), but other sources derive it from the Old French verb reschignier ("to grimace while baring teeth").
The first scientific description of the porbeagle was authored by French naturalist Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre in the 1788 Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois règnes de la nature, and based on an earlier 1769 account by Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Bonnaterre named the shark Squalus nasus, the specific epithet nasus being Latin ...
The plot and reactions to the Netflix shark movie, which is topping the streamer's Top 10 chart, explained. ... Lilith is a mutant who grows to 21 feet long and is very into French cuisine, if you ...
This article covers French words and phrases that have entered the English lexicon without ever losing their character as Gallicisms: they remain unmistakably "French" to an English speaker. They are most common in written English, where they retain French diacritics and are usually printed in italics. In spoken English, at least some attempt ...
A Bay Area photographer captures juvenile white sharks "smiling" in the warm waters of Monterey Bay.
Sea, quiet and sun. A holidaymaker on his paddleboard. In a few minutes, this idyllic picture is shattered: the man is knocked off his board into the water, and is then devoured by a shark. Almost ...
The etymology of the word shark is uncertain. The most likely etymology states that the original sense of the word was that of "predator, one who preys on others" from the Dutch schurk, meaning 'villain, scoundrel' (cf. card shark, loan shark, etc.), which was later applied to the fish due to its predatory behaviour. [10]