genus rhincodon

English Thesaurus

1. whale sharks (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish genus,
definition	:	any of various genus of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	rhincodon typus, whale shark,
definition	:	large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide; resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family rhincodontidae, rhincodontidae,
definition	:	small-toothed sharks comprising only one species (noun.animal)