HyperDic: bowhead

English > 1 sense of the word bowhead:
NOUNanimalbowhead, bowhead whale, Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetuslarge-mouthed Arctic whale
English > bowhead: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninglarge-mouthed Arctic whale.
Synonymsbowhead whale, Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetus
Member ofBalaena, genus Balaenatype genus of the Balaenidae
Broaderbaleen whale, whalebone whalewhale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
SpanishBalaena Mysticetus, ballena ártica, ballena boreal, ballena de Groenlandia
CatalanBalaena mysticetus, balena franca àrtica

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