whale : Idioms & Phrases

• noun whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
  baleen whale.
  

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• noun any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
  

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• (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

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• noun small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
  black whale; common blackfish; blackfish; Globicephala melaena.
  
• noun large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
  black whale; Physeter catodon; cachalot.
  

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• noun largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
  Balaenoptera musculus; sulfur bottom.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a right whale.

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• noun northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
  bottlenose; bottle-nosed whale; Hyperoodon ampullatus.
  

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• noun northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
  bottlenose; bottle-nosed whale; Hyperoodon ampullatus.
  

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• noun large-mouthed Arctic whale
  bowhead whale; bowhead; Balaena mysticetus.
  

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• noun very small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific
  Kogia simus.
  

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• noun large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific
  fin whale; finback; common rorqual; Balaenoptera physalus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a finback.

Webster 1913

• noun large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific
  fin whale; finback; common rorqual; Balaenoptera physalus.
  

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• noun medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
  Eschrichtius robustus; gray whale; Eschrichtius gibbosus; devilfish.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a rather large and swift California whale (Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead.

Webster 1913

• noun large-mouthed Arctic whale
  bowhead whale; bowhead; Balaena mysticetus.
  

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• noun medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
  Eschrichtius robustus; gray whale; Eschrichtius gibbosus; devilfish.
  

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• noun large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
  humpback; Megaptera novaeangliae.
  

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• noun predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
  grampus; killer; sea wolf; Orcinus orca; orca.
  

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• noun small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific
  lesser rorqual; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; minke whale.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Balænoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; called also piked whale.

Webster 1913

• noun small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific
  lesser rorqual; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; minke whale.
  

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• noun small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
  black whale; common blackfish; blackfish; Globicephala melaena.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Blackfish, 1.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the right whale, or bowhead. See Whale.

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• (Zoöl.), a small New Zealand whale (Neobalæna marginata) which is only about sixteen feet long. It produces short, but very elastic and tough, whalebone.

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• noun small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America
  Kogia breviceps.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small whale (Kogia breviceps), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called also snub-nosed cachalot.

Webster 1913

• noun large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil
  

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Right" whale`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balæna mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained. (b) Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balæna cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

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• noun similar to but smaller than the finback whale
  Balaenoptera borealis.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the blackfish.

Webster 1913

• noun large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
  black whale; Physeter catodon; cachalot.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a toothed cetacean (Hyperoödon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the sperm whale.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Sulphur-bottom.

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• (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

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• noun any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete.

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• (Zoöl.), the narwhal.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of large Antarctic petrels which follow whaling vessels, to feed on the blubber and floating oil; especially, Prion turtur (called also blue petrel), and Pseudoprion desolatus. (b) The turnstone; so called because it lives on the carcasses of whales. Canada

Webster 1913

• (Com.), whalebone. Simmonds.

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• the fishing for, or occupation of taking, whales.

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• noun amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of degraded amphipod crustaceans belonging to the genus Cyamus, especially C. ceti. They are parasitic on various cetaceans.

Webster 1913

• noun a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant
  train oil.
  

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• noun large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide; resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton
  Rhincodon typus.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The basking, or liver, shark. (b) A very large harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) native of the Indian Ocean. It sometimes becomes sixty feet long.

Webster 1913

• the name formerly given to spermaceti.

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• noun large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
  whalesucker; Remilegia australis.
  

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• ivory. Obs.

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• (Zoöl.), a balanoglossus.

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• noun whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
  baleen whale.
  

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• noun a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale
  

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• noun a ship engaged in whale fishing
  whaler.
  

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• noun small northern whale that is white when adult
  beluga; Delphinapterus leucas.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the beluga.

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