grande-tubarão-branco

• grande tubarão-branco, grande tubarão branco (pre-1990 spelling)

Calque of English great white shark.

grande-tubarão-branco m (plural grandes-tubarões-brancos)

1. synonym of tubarão-branco
   • 2012 October 12, Maria Habegger, quotee, “Tubarão touro tem a mordida mais forte entre os tubarões, diz estudo”, in anonymous translator, BBC News Brasil‎^[1], Brasília, translation of Bull sharks have strongest bite of all shark species by Matt Walker, archived from the original on 7 December 2021:

     "Esperamos mordidas fortes em tubarões maiores, que ocupam o topo da cadeia alimentar, por exemplo, o tubarão-martelo, o grande tubarão branco", disse Habegger à BBC.

     [original: "We expect strong bite force values in the larger sharks that occupy top positions in the food chain, for example, the great hammerhead, great white shark, […] " Ms Habegger told BBC Nature.]

   • 2025 March 11, Kenshu Shimada, quotee, “O megalodonte talvez não tenha sido tão robusto, segundo novas descobertas”, in anonymous translator, National Geographic Brasil‎^[2], Brazil, translation of Maybe megalodon wasn’t so chonky after all by Jason Bittel, archived from the original on 27 March 2025:

     “Estudos anteriores simplesmente presumiram que o megalodonte deveria ter se parecido com uma versão gigantesca do grande tubarão branco moderno, sem nenhuma evidência”, diz Kenshu Shimada, paleontólogo de vertebrados da Universidade DePaul, em Chicago, Estados Unidos.

     [original: “Previous studies simply assumed that megalodon must have looked like a gigantic version of the modern great white shark without any evidence,” says Kenshu Shimada, a vertebrate paleontologist at DePaul University in Chicago.]

   • 2025 June 20, “50 anos depois de “Tubarão”, os pesquisadores põem fim ao mito do peixe devorador de pessoas”, in anonymmous, transl., The Conversation Brasil‎^[3], Brazil, translation of 50 years after ‘Jaws,’ researchers have retired the man-eater myth and revealed more about sharks’ amazing biology by Gareth J. Fraser, archived from the original on 11 July 2025:

     “Tubarão” – a história de um grande tubarão branco assassino que aterroriza uma cidade turística costeira dos Estados Unidos – capturou a imaginação das pessoas e, ao mesmo tempo, criou um medo generalizado do mar.

     [original: “Jaws” – the tale of a killer great white shark that terrorizes a coastal tourist town – captured people’s imaginations and simultaneously created a widespread fear of the water.]

This term is mostly restricted to translations of English texts or related media, being absent from Portuguese dictionaries and rarely found in specialised literature. The shorter tubarão-branco is much more common.