basker
basker is the clipping of basking shark.
Noun
basker (plural baskers)
- One who or that which basks; agent noun of bask.
- […] they needed an animal that was content to bask in various different conditions. What they hadn't banked on was that their ideal basker, would come equipped with a bad attitude and fearsome set of teeth: 'crocodiles are the perfect model organism for this study' explains Seebacher, because they...2003, Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 206, number 7, University Press
- Any of various species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Urothemis, endemic to Africa and Asia.
Meaning of basking shark
Noun
basking shark (plural basking sharks)
- 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.
- 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.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 89
Forms of basker
| plural | baskers |
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Origin of basker
From bask + -er.
Questions about basker
- What does basker mean?
- Basker means one who or that which basks; agent noun of bask.
- What is basker the clipping of?
- Basker is the clipping of basking shark.
- What part of speech is basker?
- Basker is a noun.
- What is the plural of basker?
- The plural of basker is baskers.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: basker (page history and authors); basking shark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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