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SULFUR BOTTOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sulfur bottom mean? 

SULFUR BOTTOM (noun)
  The noun SULFUR BOTTOM has 1 sense:

1. largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphereplay

  Familiarity information: SULFUR BOTTOM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SULFUR BOTTOM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Balaenoptera musculus; blue whale; sulfur bottom

Hypernyms ("sulfur bottom" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("sulfur bottom" is a member of...):

Balaenoptera; genus Balaenoptera (type genus of the Balaenopteridae)


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