black whale

Questions about black whale

What does black whale mean?

black whale means "small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black whale?

Close synonyms include pilot whale, common blackfish, blackfish, Globicephala melaena, sperm whale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black whale a common word?

black whale is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.