basker

English

basker (plural baskers)

Short for basking shark.
- 1992, BBC, BBC Wildlife
  We'd had our first encounter with a basking shark, and, metaphorically at least, this gigantic, strange beast had me firmly in its jaws. Out of our wetsuits and back on dry land, we headed for the marine laboratories at Port Erin on the south of the island to meet biologist Jill Strawbridge. Coming face to face with a basker had whetted my appetite, and I was keen to get to the bottom of some of the mysteries surrounding Cetorhinus maximus.

bask +‎ -er

basker (plural baskers)

One who or that which basks; agent noun of bask.
- 2003, University Press, Journal of Experimental Biology, Volume 206, Issue 7
  […] 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 are happy to bask both in and out of water.
Any of various species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Urothemis, endemic to Africa and Asia.

From Spanish basco, vasco, from Latin vasco, from vascones, supposedly meaning "foresters".

basker m (definite singular baskeren, indefinite plural baskere, definite plural baskerne)

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