black whale

American  

noun

1. a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.

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black whale British  

noun

1. another name for pilot whale

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black whale

At dawn, when the sparkling black whale dove back into the sea, the whaleman released his harpoons.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

You see, the sparmacitty don’t take the harpoon quite so quietly as the black whale does; he fights hard to the last, and sometimes is very free with his jaws.

From Poor Jack by Marryat, Frederick

Frequently large shoals of sea-nettles, on which the black whale feeds, have been met with, borne onward towards its haunts in the north.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles

In the sea are found the black whale, porpoise, sea-horse, seal, and the narwal or sea unicorn; the horn of the latter, solid ivory, is a beautiful object.

From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by M'lean, John

A large black whale, being the first, was seen near the ships.

From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by Parry, William Edward, Sir