Small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school.
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Examples for "blackfish "
Examples for "blackfish "
1 Shark and the giant blackfish follow dogfish and seal.
2 Draw two large blackfish , trim, and clean thoroughly.
3 Dolphins, rock-cod, pigfish, and blackfish may be caught as quickly as they can be hauled out.
4 The rivers yielded eels and blackfish .
5 Now and then a blackfish was hauled in,-anevent greeted with a loud cheer from all parts of the boat.
1 Like a pilot whale , Harry needs approximately five hours of sleep nightly.
2 Maybe one of those melon headed whales, or a pilot whale .
3 Angry pilot whale A single pilot whale has been recorded biting a human.
4 Mr Lilley said it was a false killer whale, rather than a pilot whale .
5 In June, a pilot whale died off southern Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags.
1 A large black whale , being the first, was seen near the ships.
2 The whales killed at the Portland fishery were of two kinds, the right or black whale , and the sperm whale.
3 One morning they discovered that the waves had thrown up on the beach a young black whale , nearly twelve feet long.
4 At the end of it a large, humpbacked rock showed now and again through the surf, like the fin of a black whale .
5 Frequently large shoals of sea-nettles, on which the black whale feeds, have been met with, borne onward towards its haunts in the north.
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Translations for Globicephala melaena