gray whale

Noun

Meaning

medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

devilfish grey whale Eschrichtius gibbosus Eschrichtius robustus california gray whale pacific gray whale dolphin sperm whale blue whale bottlenose dolphin beaked whale sei whale bowhead whale bottlenose whale common dolphin

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Hypernyms

baleen whale whalebone whale

Examples

A. B. Van Deinse points out the "scrag whale", described by P. Dudley in 1725, as one target of early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale. Source: Internet

A future review may result in the gray whale hunt being resumed. Source: Internet

Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (suborder Mysticeti ) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus). Source: Internet

A mature gray whale can reach convert, with a typical range of convert. Source: Internet

By 1934, the western gray whale was near extinction. Source: Internet

Gigi was a gray whale calf that died in transport. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gray water gray wave gray waxbill gray whales gray willow gray with age