Australian English Meaning of right whale

Southern right whale

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Definitions and Meaning of right whale in English

Wordnet

right whale (n)

large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil

Webster

right whale ()

The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.

Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.

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Southern right whale

large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oilThe bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena myst

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