Whalefish

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A whale. dated

    "In Baffin's Bay where the whale-fish blow, The fate of Franklin no man may know"

  2. 2
    Any fish of the order Cetomimiformes of deepwater ray-finned fish.

Example

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"In Baffin's Bay where the whale-fish blow, The fate of Franklin no man may know"

Etymology

From whale + fish. Compare West Frisian walfisk, Dutch walvis (“whale”), German Low German Waalfisch, German Walfisch (“whale”), Danish hvalfisk (“whale”), Icelandic hvalfiskur.

Related phrases

flabby whalefishredmouth whalefishvelvet whalefishray finned

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