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blue whale

blue whale noun: a whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal.

blue whale: a whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal
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Noun

blue whale (plural blue whales)

  1. A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal.
    • But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of...1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, page 131

blue whale meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Assamese

blue whale in Tamil

நீலத் திமிங்கிலம்

blue whale in Telugu

a whale, Balaenoptera musculus
నీలి తిమింగలం nīli timiṅgalaṁ

blue whale in Malayalam

a whale, Balaenoptera musculus
നീലത്തിമിംഗിലം nīlattimiṅgilaṁ

blue whale in Assamese

a whale, Balaenoptera musculus
নীলা তিমি nila timi
More languagesFewer languages
blue whale in Malay
paus biru
blue whale in Indonesian
paus biru
blue whale in Thai
วาฬสีน้ำเงิน waan-sǐi-nám-ngən
blue whale in Vietnamese
cá voi xanh

Synonyms of blue whale

Forms of blue whale

pluralblue whales

Words formed from blue whale

Questions about blue whale

What does blue whale mean?
Blue whale means a whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal.
What is blue whale in Tamil?
Blue whale in Tamil is நீலத் திமிங்கிலம். See Blue whale meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is blue whale?
Blue whale is a noun.
What is the plural of blue whale?
The plural of blue whale is blue whales.

Words near blue whale in the dictionary

  1. blue wave
  2. blue waves
  3. blue waxweed
  4. blue weed
  5. blue weeds
  6. blue whale
  7. blue whales
  8. blue whiting
  9. blue wildebeest
  10. blue won
  11. blue wood sedge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue whale (page history and authors); blue whale (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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