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Rhincodon

noun

whale sharks

• Syn: ↑genus Rhincodon

• Hypernyms: ↑fish genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Rhincodontidae, ↑family Rhincodontidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑whale shark, ↑Rhincodon typus

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\\ˈriŋkəˌdän\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from rhinc- (irregular from Latin rhina, a shark) + -odon

: a genus of elasmobranch fishes that contains only the whale shark and is now usually isolated in a separate family though formerly often included in Orectolobidae

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Rhincodon /rin'kō-don/

noun

A genus of sharks occurring in tropical and temperate seas

ORIGIN: Gr rhynchos a snout, and odous, odontos a tooth

Useful english dictionary. 2012.