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    BLUE WHALE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphereplay

    Synonyms:

    Balaenoptera musculus; blue whale; sulfur bottom

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    Nouns denoting animals

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

    Balaenoptera; genus Balaenoptera (type genus of the Balaenopteridae)

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