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noun (wikipedia, Blue Whale)
  1. A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in colour/color and the largest known living animal.
    • 1851 But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing. Herman Melville: Moby Dick. This ed. 1961 Arnot publishers. p.131.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: blauwe vinvis
  • French: baleine bleue
  • German: Blauwal
  • Italian: balenottera azzurra
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