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 Frederick Marryat

The whales killed at the Portland fishery were of two kinds, the right or black whale, and the sperm whale.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane

In appearance and habits it is very different from the black whale.

From Old Jack by William Henry Giles Kingston

At the end of it a large, humpbacked rock showed now and again through the surf, like the fin of a black whale.

From Stella Fregelius by Henry Rider Haggard