white whale in English

type of large sea mammal

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1. "'A white whale.

2. The Essex was stove by a white whale.

3. 5 Elizabeth: I was the great white whale.

4. The Beluga, or white whale, is one of the smallest species of whale

5. Beluga noun (ANIMAL) [ C ] plural Beluga or Belugas (also Beluga whale, white whale) a small white whale that lives mainly in the Arctic: Biologists are trying to find out what is endangering Belugas in the …

6. Beluga, (Delphinapterus leucas), also called white whale and belukha, a small, toothed whale found mainly in the coastal waters of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas but also in rivers and deep offshore waters

7. The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive Appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings.