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Meanings of black whale in English
Portuguese
baleia-piloto Small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school.
Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris.
Usage of black whale in English
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.
6
Three black whales and a few seals were playing about near the beach.
7
No black whales were ever seen on this coast.
8
On running down to Saint Helena we were followed for several days by some black whales of immense length.
9
"The northern whales are black -theyare called the black whales; but the southern, or spermaceti whales, are not so dark in colour."