| NOUN | animal | sulfur bottom, blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known |
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| Meaning | largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere. | |
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| Synonyms | blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | |
| Member of | Balaenoptera, genus Balaenoptera | type genus of the Balaenopteridae |
| Broader | baleen whale, whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
| Spanish | ballena azul, rorcual azul | |
| Catalan | Balaenoptera musculus, balena blava, rorqual blau | |
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