rhinodon

plural rhinodons

1. archaicnonstandardrareA whale shark of the Indian Ocean.

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

   2012, Dr Leslie Henry, The Historicity of the Book of Jonah, page 16

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   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.

   1877, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 54, page 154

   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.

   1946, Major C. S. Jarvis, “A countryman's Notes”, in Country Life, volume 100, page 111