"great whale" meaning in English

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        {
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          "name": "Whales",
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          "ref": "1971 Dec, National Geographic, page 725",
          "text": "Other early hunters of whales included [...] the Basques, who developed the first organized whale fishery [...] in the Bay of Biscay, and who managed through overfishing virtually to eliminate an entire stock of great whales - those known as the Biscayan right whales.",
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        "Any of the largest thirteen species of whale currently extant (a polyphyletic grouping, all of which are baleen whales except the sperm whale)."
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          "baleen whale",
          "baleen whale"
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        [
          "sperm whale",
          "sperm whale"
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          "baleen whale",
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          "sperm whale",
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