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GREY WHALE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grey whale mean?
• GREY WHALE (noun)
The noun GREY WHALE has 1 sense:
1. medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
Familiarity information: GREY WHALE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
devilfish; Eschrichtius gibbosus; Eschrichtius robustus; gray whale; grey whale
Hypernyms ("grey whale" is a kind of...):
baleen whale; whalebone whale (whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water)
Holonyms ("grey whale" is a member of...):
Eschrichtius; genus Eschrichtius (type and sole genus of the Eschrichtiidae)
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