Right whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus Eubalaena: the North Atlantic right whale (E. glacialis), the North Pacific right whale (E. japonica) and the southern right whale (E. australis). They are classified in the family Balaenidae with the bowhead whale. Right whales have rotund bodies with arching rostrums, V-shaped bl...
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• Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale. • The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
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any of four species of stout-bodied whales having an enormous head measuring one-quarter to one-third their total body length. From the 17th to 19th ... [2 related articles]
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<zoology> The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained. ... Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale. ... <zoology> Pygmy right whale, a small Ne...
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Right' whale` (Zoology) (a) The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (
Balæna mysticetus ), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
(b) Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (
Balæna cisarctica ), and the Pacific right whale (
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n] - large arctic whalebone whale
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noun large arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right` whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil
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