basking shark

English

A basking shark

Noun

basking shark (plural basking sharks)

1. 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.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 89:

     Like the whale shark, the basking shark is a huge, slow-moving plankton feeder. Also like the whale shark, the basking shark is the sole member of a family created especially to accommodate it.

Translations

Cetorhinus maximus

• Asturian: momu (ast), pexebobu (ast), pexe d'agua mala (ast)
• Catalan: pelegrí (ca) m, tauró pelegrí (ca) m, escanyabots m
• Czech: žralok veliký m
• Danish: brugde c
• Esperanto: cetorino
• Faroese: brugda f, brugða f, hákallur m
• Finnish: jättiläishai (fi)
• French: requin pèlerin (fr) m
• Galician: tiburón peregrino (gl) m
• German: Riesenhai (de) m
• Greenlandic: eqalussuarnaq
• Hungarian: óriáscápa (hu)
• Icelandic: beinhákarl (is) m, barði m, rýnir m, beinagráni m
• Irish: liamhán gréine m, seoltóir m
• Italian: squalo elefante m, squalo cetorino m
• Japanese: ウバザメ (ubazame)
• Navajo: łóóʼntsxaaí díníchʼahii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brugde m or f

  Nynorsk: brugde f

• Polish: długoszpar (pl) m, rekin olbrzymi (pl) m
• Portuguese: tubarão-frade m, tubarão-peregrino m
• Russian: гига́нтская аку́ла f (gigántskaja akúla)
• Scottish Gaelic: cearban m
• Slovak: žralok obrovský (sk) m, žralok ozrutný m, obroň sťahovavý m
• Spanish: tiburón peregrino m
• Swedish: brugd (sv) c
• Turkish: büyük camgöz
• Volapük: gianajak (vo)

Further reading

• basking shark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cetorhinus maximus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies