HyperDic: blue_whale

English > 1 sense of the expression blue whale:
NOUNanimalblue whale, sulfur bottom, Balaenoptera musculuslargest mammal ever known
English > blue whale: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninglargest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere.
Synonymssulfur bottom, Balaenoptera musculus
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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