Usually means: Large shark, feeds by filtering.
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  1. basking shark: Merriam-Webster
  2. basking shark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. basking shark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. basking shark: Collins English Dictionary
  5. basking shark: Vocabulary.com
  6. basking shark: Wordnik
  7. basking shark: Wiktionary
  8. basking shark: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. basking shark: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Basking shark, basking shark: Dictionary.com
  11. Basking Shark, Basking shark: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Basking shark: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. basking shark: Rhymezone
  14. Basking shark: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. basking-shark: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. basking shark: FreeDictionary.org
  17. basking shark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. basking shark: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), basking shark: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. Basking Shark: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (basking shark)

noun:  A very large shark, Cetorhinus maximus, that feeds at or close to the surface by filtering plankton from the water and is found in all the world's temperate oceans.

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