Rhinodon

Quick meaning: Rhinodon is a noun meaning (very rare or nonstandard, archaic) A whale shark of the Indian Ocean.

Meaning

(very rare or nonstandard, archaic) A whale shark of the Indian Ocean.

Example Sentences

Several years ago in the English channel a man was swallowed by a rhinodon shark.

I was most interested to read in COUNTRY LIFE on June 28 the account of the rhinodon, or whale shark, in the Gulf of Akaba, who in the year 1943 bumped into a boat containing Fishery officials of the Palestine Government.

But there were stories told me of how a harpooned rhinodon, having by a lightning-like dive exhausted the supply of rope, which had been accidentally fastened to the boat, dived deeper still, and so pulled pirogue and crew to the bottom" — as, being a true fish, it remains at the bottom as readily as at the top.

Word Forms

• rhinodons

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include whaleshark, requin, sharpnose, rondeletiid, wedgefish, bignose.

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