Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

great whale

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

Syllables: great whale
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the largest thirteen species of whale currently extant (a polyphyletic grouping, all of which are baleen whales except the sperm whale).

Example Sentences

"Other early hunters of whales included [...] the Basques, who developed the first organized whale fishery [...] in the Bay of Biscay, and who managed through overfishing virtually to eliminate an entire stock of great whales - those known as the Biscayan right whales."

Inflected Forms

great whales (plural)

Questions

What does great whale mean?: Any of the largest thirteen species of whale currently extant (a polyphyletic grouping, all of which are baleen whales except the sperm whale).

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