basking shark

English Thesaurus

1. large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mackerel shark,
definition	:	fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cetorhinus, genus cetorhinus,
definition	:	comprising only the basking sharks; in some classifications considered the type genus of a separate family Cetorhinidae (noun.animal)