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Noun: bowhead whale
  1. Large-mouthed Arctic whale
    - bowhead, Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetus

Derived forms: bowhead whales

Type of: baleen whale, whalebone whale

Part of: Balaena, genus Balaena

Encyclopedia: Bowhead whale