GRAY WHALE

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Meaning:

Medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific

Synonyms:

devilfish; Eschrichtius gibbosus; Eschrichtius robustus; gray whale; grey whale

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gray 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 ("gray whale" is a member of...):

Eschrichtius; genus Eschrichtius (type and sole genus of the Eschrichtiidae)

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