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Noun: grey whale
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: gray whale)
  1. 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