pilot whale


pilot whale

noun

Definition of PILOT WHALE

: either of two chiefly black medium-sized toothed whales (Globicephala melaena syn. G. melas and G. macrorhynchus) —called also blackfish

First Known Use of PILOT WHALE

1867

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