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    HUMPBACK WHALE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    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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