WHALE
\wˈe͡ɪl], \wˈeɪl], \w_ˈeɪ_l]\
Definitions of WHALE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
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a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
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any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
By Princeton University
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a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
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any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
By Oddity Software
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Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
By Noah Webster.
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Large marine mammals of the order Cetacea. In the past, they were commercially valued for whale oil, for their flesh as human food and in animal feed and fertilizer, and for baleen. The sperm whale produces AMBERGRIS, an intestinal secretion used in perfumery. (From Webster, 3d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A very large, warmblooden, air-breathing sea mammal, shaped like a fish and valued for its oil and whale bone: whale calf, a young whale.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
