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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Right whale

/rīt wāl/ · Right· whale · IPA
01 The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
  1. 1.
    The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.(Zool.)
Phrases & compounds
Pygmy right whale — a small New Zealand whale (Neobalaena marginata) which is only about sixteen feet long. It produces short, but very elastic and tough, whalebone.