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bowhead whale
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  bowhead whale - large-mouthed Arctic whale Balaena mysticetus, bowhead, Greenland whalebaleen whale, whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the waterBalaena, genus Balaena - type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales |
bowhead whale
bowhead whale: see right whaleright whale,
name for whales of the family Balaenidae. They were so named by whalers, who for centuries considered them "the right whales" to hunt, because they float when killed and because they yield enormous quantities of oil and of baleen.
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Related to bowhead whale: blue whaleSynonyms for bowhead whalenoun large-mouthed Arctic whaleSynonyms- Balaena mysticetus
- bowhead
- Greenland whale
Related Words- baleen whale
- whalebone whale
- Balaena
- genus Balaena
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