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.
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Draw two large blackfish, trim, and clean thoroughly.
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Dolphins, rock-cod, pigfish, and blackfish may be caught as quickly as they can be hauled out.
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The rivers yielded eels and blackfish.
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Now and then a blackfish was hauled in,-anevent greeted with a loud cheer from all parts of the boat.
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A large black whale, being the first, was seen near the ships.
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The whales killed at the Portland fishery were of two kinds, the right or black whale, and the sperm whale.
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One morning they discovered that the waves had thrown up on the beach a young black whale, nearly twelve feet long.
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At the end of it a large, humpbacked rock showed now and again through the surf, like the fin of a black whale.
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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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Like a pilot whale, Harry needs approximately five hours of sleep nightly.
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Maybe one of those melon headed whales, or a pilot whale.
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Angry pilot whale A single pilot whale has been recorded biting a human.
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Mr Lilley said it was a false killer whale, rather than a pilot whale.
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In June, a pilot whale died off southern Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags.
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They'd all lost a lot of weight, but Hopkins still eerily resembled a pilot whale.
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A single pilot whale stranded on Robinsons Bay in Akaroa will be euthanised this afternoon.
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A pilot whale on BBC's Blue Planet was the tipping point for our phenomenal plastic addiction.
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On Tuesday a pilot whale died in the Silverknowes area of Edinburgh after it became stranded.
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The Odontoceti include the white whale, the killer whale, the pilot whale and the sperm whale.
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Each pilot whale weighs about three tonnes.
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An environment group has criticised Denmark for failing to halt the annual pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
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It means that if one pilot whale encountered a problem then it could have an impact on the entire group.
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The six-metre pilot whale was found with its jaw and head removed, most probably for the value of its teeth.
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Hundreds of people gathered on Inch Strand in Co Kerry on Saturday afternoon as a stranded pilot whale was successfully refloated.
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The latest example was a pilot whale that died in Thailand with some 80 pieces of plastic rubbish found in its stomach.