walvis

Definitions of walvis
  1. noun
    any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
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    types:
    baardwalvis
    whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
    tandwalvis
    any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.
    bolder, dolfijn, dukdalf, meerboei, meerbolder, meerpaal
    any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
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