Blue whale
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal.
"But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing."
- 2 largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of Southern Hemisphere wordnet
Example
More examples"But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing."