BOWHEAD WHALE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Large-mouthed Arctic whale

Synonyms:

Balaena mysticetus; bowhead; bowhead whale; Greenland whale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bowhead whale" is a kind of...):

baleen whale; whalebone whale (whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water)

Holonyms ("bowhead whale" is a member of...):

Balaena; genus Balaena (type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales)