Noun: grey whale
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: gray whale)
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: gray whale)
- Medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
"grey whales migrate annually between Alaska and Mexico";
- gray whale [US], devilfish, Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus
Derived forms: grey whales
Type of: baleen whale, whalebone whale
Part of: Eschrichtius, genus Eschrichtius
Encyclopedia: Grey whale