gray whale

gray whale
noun
medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
• Hypernyms: ↑baleen whale, ↑whalebone whale
• Member Holonyms: ↑Eschrichtius, ↑genus Eschrichtius

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noun
: a rather large whalebone whale (Rhachianectes glaucus) of the northern Pacific formerly much hunted though of fierce active disposition and difficult to capture

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a grayish-black whalebone whale, Eschrichtius robustus, of the North Pacific, growing to a length of 50 ft. (15.2 m): now rare.
[1855-60]

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gray whale,
a grayish-black baleen whale of medium size found off the Pacific Coast of North America.

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n. a mottled gray baleen whale that typically has heavy encrustations of barnacles on the skin, commonly seen in coastal waters of the northeastern Pacific. ● Eschrichtius robustus, the only member of the family Eschrichtiidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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