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Definition of Right whale
1. Noun. Large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the 'right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil.
Definition of Right whale
1. Noun. The baleen whales belonging to the family ''Balaenidae'', in the genera ''Eubalaena'' (three species) and ''Balaena'' (one species, the bowhead whale, also called the Greenland right whale). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Right whale
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Whale
Literary usage of Right whale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1849)
"Of the whole number of vessels at sea (558), about one-half are engaged chiefly
in the sperm whale fishery, the other half making the right whale the main ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Certain it is that they visited Newfoundland immediately after the discovery of
America and captured the same species of right whale in those waters. ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"Of the whole number of vessels at sea (558), about one-half are engaged chiefly
in the sperm whale fishery, the other half making the right whale the main ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1873)
"... and this difference in the thoracic adaptation, together with the great breadth
of the first rib in the right whale, might explain the very different ..."
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