gray whale

What does gray whale mean?

gray whale means "medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific".

What is another word for gray whale?

Close synonyms include grey whale, devilfish, Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus. 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 gray whale a common word?

gray whale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gray whale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.