English Explanatory Dictionary

gray whale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A baleen whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from the north Pacific

Word forms

gray whale gray whales grey whale

Etymology

Disputed. Either from the whale’s coloration, or after British zoologist John Edward Gray, who first recognized it as a distinct genus in 1864.

Synonyms

grayback whale grayback California gray whale Pacific gray whale Korean gray whale desert whale scrag whale ripsack mussel digger devilfish
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