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whalefish

whalefish noun: a whale.

Noun

whalefish (plural whalefishes or whalefish)

  1. (dated) A whale.
    • In Baffin's Bay where the whale-fish blow,
      The fate of Franklin no man may knowca. 1855, anonymous author, “Lord Franklin”
  2. Any fish of the order Cetomimiformes of deepwater ray-finned fish.

whalefish meaning in Tamil

whalefish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of whalefish

pluralwhalefishes
pluralwhalefish

Origin of whalefish

From whale + fish. Compare West Frisian walfisk, Dutch walvis (“whale”), German Low German Waalfisch, German Walfisch (“whale”), Danish hvalfisk (“whale”), Icelandic hvalfiskur.

Words formed from whalefish

  • flabby whalefish
  • redmouth whalefish
  • velvet whalefish

Questions about whalefish

What does whalefish mean?
Whalefish means a whale.
What is whalefish in Tamil?
Whalefish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Whalefish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is whalefish?
Whalefish is a noun.
What is the plural of whalefish?
The plural of whalefish is whalefishes.

Words near whalefish in the dictionary

  1. whaled on
  2. whaledom
  3. whalefall
  4. whalefalls
  5. whalefeed
  6. whalefish
  7. whalefisher
  8. whalefishers
  9. whalefishes
  10. whalehead
  11. whaleheads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whalefish (page history and authors); whalefish (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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