noun
whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
• Syn: ↑whalebone whale
• Hypernyms: ↑whale
• Hyponyms:
↑right whale, ↑bowhead, ↑bowhead whale, ↑Greenland whale, ↑Balaena mysticetus, ↑rorqual, ↑razorback, ↑blue whale, ↑sulfur bottom, ↑Balaenoptera musculus, ↑humpback, ↑humpback whale, ↑Megaptera novaeangliae, ↑grey whale, ↑gray whale, ↑devilfish, ↑Eschrichtius gibbosus, ↑Eschrichtius robustus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Mysticeti, ↑suborder Mysticeti
Useful english dictionary. 2012.