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Meanings of common blackfish 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.
Synonyms
Examples for "blackfish"
Examples for "blackfish"
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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.
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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.
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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.