flue whale
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hybrid of a fin whale and a blue whale.
Example Sentences
- "What does a hybrid whale look like? Sometimes nicknamed “flue whale” (a combination of the words “fin” and “blue”), these hybrids can present traits of both parent species."
- "Calambokidis, who has spent more than 50 years studying cetaceans, suspects Whale 52 may be a hybrid: part blue whale, part fin whale. Such a creature, often called a flue whale, is growing more common as warming seas push blues into new breeding grounds, where they are increasingly likely to mate with their fin relatives."
- "Experts have floated some theories around this whale’s dulcet tones: does it have some malformation that makes its voice higher than other whales? Or could it be a hybrid of two species – perhaps it’s a flue whale, the offspring of a blue and fin whale?"