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    BALEEN WHALE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the waterplay

    Synonyms:

    baleen whale; whalebone whale

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    Nouns denoting animals

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

    whale (any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baleen whale"):

    right whale (large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the 'right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil)

    Balaena mysticetus; bowhead; bowhead whale; Greenland whale (large-mouthed Arctic whale)

    razorback; rorqual (any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin)

    Balaenoptera musculus; blue whale; sulfur bottom (largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere)

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

    devilfish; Eschrichtius gibbosus; Eschrichtius robustus; gray whale; grey whale (medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific)

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

    Mysticeti; suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks)

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