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Right whale has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil

2

Any of certain baleen whales of the family Balaenidae, in the genera Eubalaena (three species) and Balaena (one species, the bowhead whale, also called the Greenland right whale).

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
baleen whale
Rhyming Words
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