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blue whales

blue whales is the plural of blue whale.

Meaning of blue whale

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

Questions about blue whales

What is blue whales the plural of?
Blue whales is the plural of blue whale.

Words near blue whales in the dictionary

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

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