baleen whale
Noun
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Whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water (synset 102065877)
is a type of: whale - any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the headsubtypes:
- right whale - large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil
- balaena mysticetus, bowhead, bowhead whale, greenland whale - large-mouthed Arctic whale
- razorback, rorqual - any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin
- balaenoptera musculus, blue whale, sulfur bottom - largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
- humpback, humpback whale, megaptera novaeangliae - large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
- devilfish, eschrichtius gibbosus, eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale - medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
belongs to: mysticeti, suborder mysticeti - baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbackssame as: whalebone whale
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