fin whale

Questions about fin whale

What is another word for fin whale?

It depends which fin whale you mean. In the sense “large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific”, the synonyms are finback, finback whale, common rorqual, Balaenoptera physalus. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of fin whale?

WordNet records no antonym for fin whale. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for fin whale come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of fin whale

• Full entry for fin whaleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fin whaleWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.