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Definition of Whale

1. Noun. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities.

2. Verb. Hunt for whales. "In the summer they like to go out and whale"

3. Noun. Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head.

Definition of Whale

1. n. Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

2. n. Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

Definition of Whale

1. to engage in the hunting of whales (large marine mammals) [v WHALED, WHALING, WHALES]

Medical Definition of Whale

1. Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone. The existing whales are divided into two groups: the toothed whales (Odontocete), including those that have teeth, as the cachalot, or sperm whale (see Sperm whale); and the baleen, or whalebone, whales (Mysticete), comprising those that are destitute of teeth, but have plates of baleen hanging from the upper jaw, as the right whales. The most important species of whalebone whales are the bowhead, or Greenland, whale, the Biscay whale, the Antarctic whale, the gray whale (see under Gray), the humpback, the finback, and the rorqual. Whale bird. A balanoglossus. Origin: OE. Whal, AS. Hwael; akin to D. Walvisch, G. Wal, walfisch, OHG. Wal, Icel. Hvalr, Dan. & Sw. Hval, hvalfisk. Cf. Narwhal, Walrus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Whale

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whaizle whaizled whaizles whaizling whale (current term) whale (current term) whaleback whalebacks whaleboat whaleboats

whalebone whalebones whalebone whale whaled whalelike whaleman whaleman whalemen whaler whaler

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