cetorhinus maximus

1. 1.

   large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface

   Synonymsbasking shark

   Broadermackerel shark

   Part ofCetorhinus

Questions about cetorhinus maximus

What does cetorhinus maximus mean?

cetorhinus maximus means "large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface".

What is another word for cetorhinus maximus?

Close synonyms include basking shark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cetorhinus maximus a common word?

cetorhinus maximus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.