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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Example Sentences

Bowhead are beamy black whales, the size of a school bus and a half at most, with a characteristic downturned jaw.

From Economist

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

From Literature

These could be the remains of a small, rarely seen black whale known as karasu, or raven, among Japanese sailors.

From Washington Post

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.

From US News

Using DNA testing he found that two were actually a closer genetic match to the small black whales tested by Japanese scientists in 2013.

From National Geographic