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Greenland whale

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Greenland whale
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
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Noun1.Greenland whaleGreenland whale - large-mouthed Arctic whale          
Balaena mysticetus, bowhead, bowhead whale
baleen whale, whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
Balaena, genus Balaena - type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales


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What would become of a Greenland whale, say, in those shuddering, icy seas of the north, if unsupplied with his cosy surtout?
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
[8] If we suppose the case of the discovery of a skeleton of a Greenland whale in a fossil state, not a single cetaceous animal being known to exist, what naturalist would have ventured conjecture on the possibility of a carcass so gigantic being supported on the minute crustacea and mollusca living in the frozen seas of the extreme North?
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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