Meaning of rhinodon | Babel Free

Definitions

A whale shark of the Indian Ocean.

archaic, nonstandard, rare

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

CEFR level