BALAENA MYSTICETUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Balaena mysticetus mean? 

• BALAENA MYSTICETUS (noun)
  The noun BALAENA MYSTICETUS has 1 sense:

1. large-mouthed Arctic whale

  Familiarity information: BALAENA MYSTICETUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALAENA MYSTICETUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large-mouthed Arctic whale

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Balaena mysticetus; bowhead; bowhead whale; Greenland whale

Hypernyms ("Balaena mysticetus" is a kind of...):

baleen whale; whalebone whale (whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water)

Holonyms ("Balaena mysticetus" is a member of...):

Balaena; genus Balaena (type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales)