black whale (English, noun)
expansion: black whale (plural black whales)
Senses:
glosses: Any whale of three species:
a sperm whale (Physeter catodon, syn. Physeter macrocephalus (family Physeteridae))
glosses: Any whale of three species:
a right whale or northern right whale (family Balaenidae)
North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
glosses: Any whale of three species:
a right whale or northern right whale (family Balaenidae)
North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)
glosses: Any cetacean blackfish.
Forms:
form: black whales
tags: plural