HUMPBACK WHALE

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Meaning:

Large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives

Synonyms:

humpback; humpback whale; Megaptera novaeangliae

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Nouns denoting animals

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

genus Megaptera; Megaptera (humpback whales)

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