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black whale
noun
a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
black whale
noun
another name for pilot whale
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Dozens of small, black whales lying dead on the shore or in the shallows.
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Bowhead are beamy black whales, the size of a school bus and a half at most, with a characteristic downturned jaw.
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At dawn, when the sparkling black whale dove back into the sea, the whaleman released his harpoons.
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These could be the remains of a small, rarely seen black whale known as karasu, or raven, among Japanese sailors.
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The testing shows the black whales, with bulbous heads and beaks like porpoises, are not dwarf varieties of more common Baird's beaked whales, a slate-gray animal.
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