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BALEEN WHALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
Synonyms:
baleen whale; whalebone whale
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("baleen whale" is a kind of...):
whale (any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baleen whale"):
right whale (large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the 'right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil)
Balaena mysticetus; bowhead; bowhead whale; Greenland whale (large-mouthed Arctic whale)
razorback; rorqual (any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin)
Balaenoptera musculus; blue whale; sulfur bottom (largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere)
humpback; humpback whale; Megaptera novaeangliae (large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives)
devilfish; Eschrichtius gibbosus; Eschrichtius robustus; gray whale; grey whale (medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific)
Holonyms ("baleen whale" is a member of...):
Mysticeti; suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks)
