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black whale

noun

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


black whale

noun

  1. another name for pilot whale


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A black whale, a seal of the largest kind, and numerous flocks of geese were seen in the course of this day.

A large black whale and some white ones, with innumerable seals, were seen.

The young of the lion and the puma are often striped, and the fœtal Black whale has teeth, like its ally the Sperm whale.

At the end of it a large, humpbacked rock showed now and again through the surf, like the fin of a black whale.

In appearance and habits it is very different from the black whale.

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