Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whale_shark

1 sense of whale shark

Sense 1
whale shark, Rhincodon typus -- (large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide; resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton)
       => shark -- (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)