right whale
Noun
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Noun
right whale (plural right whales)
- Any of certain baleen whales of the family Balaenidae, in the genera Eubalaena (three species) and Balaena (one species, the bowhead whale, also called the Greenland right whale). [from 18th c.]
- 2018, Chelsea Murray, The Guardian, 20 June ↗:
- The previous night, they’d received a call from the federal Department of Oceans and Fisheries (DFO): a right whale was tangled up in crab trap lines near their location.
- 2018, Chelsea Murray, The Guardian, 20 June ↗:
- Portuguese: baleia-franca
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