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white whale
white whale
noun
- a small white toothed whale, Delphinapterus leucas, of northern waters: family Monodontidae Also calledbeluga
Word History and Origins
Origin of white whale1
Example Sentences
If Deadspin has one singular white whale, it is the guys in Bristol, Conn.
American novelists no longer have the ambition, the reach, the balls, frankly, to seek that great white whale.
Coup's Broadway Aquarium opened on October 11, 1876—too late to get a white whale that year.
The white whale is the only one of its tribe that can be captured in the manner related, because of its cowardly timidity.
They were upholstered with "bladder wrack," a most soft cushion, and in each box a white whale lay on these pneumatic cushions.
There was a great sign outdoor sayin', 'Come on aboard and see the White Whale,' or somethin' similar.
Blubber and white whale meat, frozen very hard, were packed for dog food.
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