RIGHT WHALE

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

Balaenidae; family Balaenidae (right whales)

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