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| Ahab |
the tragic hero of Herman Melville's nineteenth-century novel Moby Dick, who is ruled by an obsession to kill the white whale of the title. [1/2 definitions] |
| beluga |
a white, round-headed whale; beluga whale. [1/2 definitions] |
| blowhole |
a nostril in the top of the head of a whale, dolphin, or porpoise. The blowhole is used to breathe. [1/3 definitions] |
| blue whale |
the largest whale, as much as one hundred feet long, with a bluish gray back, yellow undersides, and grooves running lengthwise on the throat and abdomen. |
| cachalot |
a sperm whale. |
| calf1 |
a young cow or bull. A young whale or elephant is also called a calf. |
| cow1 |
the female of various other large animals such as the buffalo, elephant, and whale. [1/2 definitions] |
| cowfish |
a small dolphin, whale, or other ocean mammal. [1/2 definitions] |
| dugong |
a large herbivorous sea mammal found in the Indian Ocean that has flipperlike forelimbs and a tail resembling that of a whale. |
| fin |
to strike the water repeatedly with the fins, as does a dying whale. [1/8 definitions] |
| flense |
to strip (blubber or skin), or to strip (a whale or seal) of blubber or skin. |
| flipper |
a wide, flat limb on a whale, turtle, or other animal that is used for swimming. [1/2 definitions] |
| grampus |
any of a number of other marine mammals, such as the killer whale. [1/2 definitions] |
| gray whale |
a medium-sized mostly gray or black whalebone whale of the North Pacific. |
| humpback |
a species of whale that has a humped back and long flippers. [1/3 definitions] |
| Jonah |
according to the Old Testament, a minor Hebrew prophet who disobeyed God and was punished by being swallowed by a great fish, or whale, until he agreed to carry out God's order. [1/2 definitions] |
| killer whale |
a black and white, toothed whale. Killer whales kill and eat seals and large fish. |
| leviathan |
any marine animal of enormous size, such as the whale. [1/3 definitions] |
| minke whale |
a small, fast-moving whale having furrows on its light belly and throat and a dorsal fin. |
| Moby Dick |
the white whale in Herman Melville's mid-nineteenth-century novel of the same name. |
| orca |
see "killer whale." |
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