BLUE WHALE

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Meaning:

Largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere

Synonyms:

Balaenoptera musculus; blue whale; sulfur bottom

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("blue whale" is a kind of...):

baleen whale; whalebone whale (whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water)

Holonyms ("blue whale" is a member of...):

Balaenoptera; genus Balaenoptera (type genus of the Balaenopteridae)

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