WHALEBONE WHALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whalebone whale mean? 

• WHALEBONE WHALE (noun)
  The noun WHALEBONE WHALE has 1 sense:

1. whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water

  Familiarity information: WHALEBONE WHALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHALEBONE WHALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

baleen whale; whalebone whale

Hypernyms ("whalebone whale" is a kind of...):

whale (any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whalebone whale"):

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)

Holonyms ("whalebone whale" is a member of...):

Mysticeti; suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks)