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right whales

right whales is the plural of right whale.

Meaning of right whale

Noun

right whale (plural right whales)

  1. Any baleen whale of the genus Eubalaena.
    • It is said (in what may be an apocryphal story) that around 1712, a Nantucket captain named Christopher Hussey was blown offshore while hunting right whales, and came upon a school of large, bluff-headed whales with forward-angled spouts.1996, Richard Ellis, Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss, page 305

Questions about right whales

What is right whales the plural of?
Right whales is the plural of right whale.

Words near right whales in the dictionary

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  9. right you are
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