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Gray whale

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Noun
  1. 1
    A baleen whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from the north Pacific
  2. 2
    medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific wordnet

Etymology

Disputed. Either from the whale’s coloration, or after British zoologist John Edward Gray, who first recognized it as a distinct genus in 1864.

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