"blue whale" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blue whales [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue whale (plural blue whales)
  1. A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal. Wikipedia link: blue whale Categories (lifeform): Whales Synonyms: sulfur-bottom whale, sulphur bottom whale Derived forms: pygmy blue whale Translations (a whale, Balaenoptera musculus): blouwalvis (Afrikaans), নীলা তিমি (nila timi) (Assamese), göy balina (Azerbaijani), блакітны кіт (blakitny kit) [masculine] (Belarusian), rorqual blau [masculine] (Catalan), balena blava [feminine] (Catalan), ᎠᏌᎪᏂᎨ ᏓᏆ (asagonige daqua) (Cherokee), 藍鯨 (Chinese Mandarin), 蓝鲸 (lánjīng) (Chinese Mandarin), latn (Cypriot Arabic), plejtvák obrovský [masculine] (Czech), blåhval [common-gender] (Danish), blauwe vinvis (Dutch), blua baleno (Esperanto), sinivaal (Estonian), royður [feminine] (Faroese), sinivalas (Finnish), baleine bleue [feminine] (French), rorqual bleu (French), rorqual de Sibbald (French), Blauwal [masculine] (German), tunnulik (Greenlandic), kék bálna (Hungarian), óriás bálna (Hungarian), steypireyður [feminine] (Icelandic), balenottera azzurra [feminine] (Italian), 白長須鯨 (shironagasu kujira) (alt: しろながすくじら) (Japanese), 대왕고래 (daewanggorae) (Korean), көк кит (kök kit) (Kyrgyz), paus biru (Malay), നീലത്തിമിംഗിലം (nīlattimiṅgilaṁ) (Malayalam), balena kaħla (Maltese), balena bluna (Maltese), хөх судалт халим (xöx sudalt xalim) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), цэнхэр халим (cenxer xalim) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠯᠲᠤ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ (köke sudaltu qalimu) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), ᠴᠡᠩᠬᠡᠷ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ (čengker qalimu) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), blåhval [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), blåkval [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), blåkval [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), płetwal błękitny [masculine] (Polish), baleia-azul [feminine] (Portuguese), balenă albastră [feminine] (Romanian), balenă uriașă [feminine] (Romanian), блюва́л (bljuvál) [masculine] (Russian), си́ний кит (sínij kit) [masculine] (Russian), vráskavec obrovský [masculine] (Slovak), sinji kit [masculine] (Slovene), rorcual azul [masculine] (Spanish), ballena azul [feminine] (Spanish), nyangumi buluu (Swahili), blåval [common-gender] (Swedish), నీలి తిమింగలం (nīli timiṅgalaṁ) (Telugu), วาฬสีน้ำเงิน (waan-sǐi-nám-ngən) (Thai), gök balina (Turkish), синій кит (synij kyt) [masculine] (Ukrainian), cá voi xanh (Vietnamese)
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          "word": "plejtvák obrovský"
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "sinivaal"
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
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          "word": "sinivalas"
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
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          "word": "baleine bleue"
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          "word": "rorqual bleu"
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
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          "word": "Blauwal"
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "óriás bálna"
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
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          "alt": "しろながすくじら",
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "白長須鯨"
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "대왕고래"
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          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
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          "code": "ro",
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          "word": "balenă uriașă"
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          "roman": "bljuvál",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "rorcual azul"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ballena azul"
        },
        {
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "nyangumi buluu"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "blåval"
        },
        {
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "nīli timiṅgalaṁ",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "నీలి తిమింగలం"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "waan-sǐi-nám-ngən",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "วาฬสีน้ำเงิน"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "gök balina"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "synij kyt",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "синій кит"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
          "word": "cá voi xanh"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "blue whale"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "blue whale"
}
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  "derived": [
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      "word": "pygmy blue whale"
    }
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        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Cherokee translations",
        "Terms with Cypriot Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Faroese translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greenlandic translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Malayalam translations",
        "Terms with Maltese translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Mongolian translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swahili translations",
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        "Terms with Telugu translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
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        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, page 131:",
          "text": "But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing.",
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      "word": "sulphur bottom whale"
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      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "blouwalvis"
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      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "latn"
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    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "nila timi",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "নীলা তিমি"
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "göy balina"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "blakitny kit",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блакітны кіт"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rorqual blau"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balena blava"
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    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "asagonige daqua",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "ᎠᏌᎪᏂᎨ ᏓᏆ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "藍鯨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lánjīng",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "蓝鲸"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plejtvák obrovský"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "blåhval"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "blauwe vinvis"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "blua baleno"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "sinivaal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "royður"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "sinivalas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "baleine bleue"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "rorqual bleu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "rorqual de Sibbald"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Blauwal"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "tunnulik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "kék bálna"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "óriás bálna"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "steypireyður"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balenottera azzurra"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しろながすくじら",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shironagasu kujira",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "白長須鯨"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "daewanggorae",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "대왕고래"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "kök kit",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "көк кит"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "paus biru"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "nīlattimiṅgilaṁ",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "നീലത്തിമിംഗിലം"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "balena kaħla"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "balena bluna"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "xöx sudalt xalim",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "хөх судалт халим"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "cenxer xalim",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "цэнхэр халим"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "köke sudaltu qalimu",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "Mongolian"
      ],
      "word": "ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠯᠲᠤ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "čengker qalimu",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "Mongolian"
      ],
      "word": "ᠴᠡᠩᠬᠡᠷ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blåhval"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blåkval"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blåkval"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "płetwal błękitny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "baleia-azul"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balenă albastră"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balenă uriașă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bljuvál",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блюва́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sínij kit",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "си́ний кит"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vráskavec obrovský"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sinji kit"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rorcual azul"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ballena azul"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "nyangumi buluu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "blåval"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "nīli timiṅgalaṁ",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "నీలి తిమింగలం"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "waan-sǐi-nám-ngən",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "วาฬสีน้ำเงิน"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "gök balina"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "synij kyt",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "синій кит"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a whale, Balaenoptera musculus",
      "word": "cá voi xanh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blue whale"
}

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