black whale

noun

1. a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.

black whale

noun

1. another name for pilot whale

Example Sentences

Dozens of small, black whales lying dead on the shore or in the shallows.

From Salon

Bowhead are beamy black whales, the size of a school bus and a half at most, with a characteristic downturned jaw.

From Economist

At dawn, when the sparkling black whale dove back into the sea, the whaleman released his harpoons.

From Literature

These could be the remains of a small, rarely seen black whale known as karasu, or raven, among Japanese sailors.

From Washington Post

The testing shows the black whales, with bulbous heads and beaks like porpoises, are not dwarf varieties of more common Baird's beaked whales, a slate-gray animal.

From US News