whale - any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head

Mysticeti, suborder Mysticeti - baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks

right whale - large arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil

Balaena mysticetus, bowhead, bowhead whale, Greenland whale - large-mouthed arctic whale

rorqual, razorback - any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin

Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale, sulfur bottom - largest mammal ever known; bluish-gray migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere

humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, humpback - large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives

devilfish, Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale - medium-sized grayish-black whale of the northern Pacific