whale shark

English Thesaurus

1. large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide; resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	shark,
definition	:	any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus rhincodon, rhincodon,
definition	:	whale sharks (noun.animal)