Definition of right whale Right whale
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What does right whale mean?
WordNet
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| right whale - large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil | ||
| baleen whale, whalebone whale whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- right whale
The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained. - right whale
Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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right whale
A name applied to the whale with a very large head and no dorsal fin, which yields the whalebone and train-oil of commerce, in opposition to the fin-backs or rorquals, which are scarcely worth catching. There are several species found both in the Arctic and Southern seas, but never within the tropics.
