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basking shark
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun basking shark has 1 sense
- basking shark(n = noun.animal) cetorhinus maximus - large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface; Array is a kind of mackerel shark
is a member of cetorhinus, genus cetorhinus
CIDE DICTIONARY
basking shark,
One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus ), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark , or bone shark . It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species. [1913 Webster]
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