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Meanings of Greenland whale in English

Portuguese
baleia-da-groenlândia
Catalan
balena franca àrtica
Spanish
ballena boreal

Large-mouthed Arctic whale.

        baleia-da-groenlândia
        Usage of Greenland whale in English
        1
        In another respect, the sperm is very different from the Greenland whale.
        Old Jack
        2
        The Greenland whale is less in size than the sperm-its length being about 60 feet.
        Old Jack
        3
        The sperm whale we had taken is very different to the Greenland whale of the North.
        Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading
        4
        I believe you wish to make some additional statement with regard to the Greenland whale fishery?-Yes.
        Second Shetland Truck System Report
        5
        Nay; what thing, for example, is there in the Greenland whale's anatomy more striking than his baleen?
        Moby Dick
        6
        Yet we have seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the Greenland whale.
        Moby Dick
        7
        The Greenland whale-oil is next in quality.
        Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
        8
        And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper upon the throne of the seas.
        Moby Dick
        9
        A gull darted along the water, and in the far distance I heard the bellow of the huge Greenland whale.
        Tales of the Chesapeake
        10
        Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the English and the right whale of the Americans.
        Moby Dick
        11
        Then, this same humpbacked whale and the Greenland whale, each of these has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases.
        Moby Dick
        12
        These creatures are only balaeaopterons, provided with dorsal fins; and, like the cachalots, are generally much smaller than the Greenland whale.
        Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
        13
        But Scoresby knew nothing and says nothing of the great sperm whale, compared with which the Greenland whale is almost unworthy mentioning.
        Moby Dick
        14
        In destroying the southern whale (like the Greenland whale, an inoffensive creature), your traders do a culpable action, Master Land.
        Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
        15
        What would become of a Greenland whale, say, in those shuddering, icy seas of the North, if unsupplied with his cosy surtout?
        Moby Dick
        16
        The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
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