blue whale

/blu weɪl/
/blu hweɪl/
/blu weɪl/
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Other forms: blue whales

Definitions of blue whale
  1. noun
    largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
    synonyms: Balaenoptera musculus, sulfur bottom
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    type of:
    baleen whale, whalebone whale
    whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
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