HyperDic: balaenoptera_musculus

English > 1 sense of the expression Balaenoptera musculus:
NOUNanimalBalaenoptera musculus, blue whale, sulfur bottomlargest mammal ever known
English > Balaenoptera musculus: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninglargest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere.
Synonymsblue whale, sulfur bottom
Member ofBalaenoptera, genus Balaenopteratype genus of the Balaenopteridae
Broaderbaleen whale, whalebone whalewhale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
Spanishballena azul, rorcual azul
CatalanBalaenoptera musculus, balena blava, rorqual blau

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