Right whale
WordNet
noun
(1) Large arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil
WiktionaryText
Noun
right whale
- The baleen whales belonging to the family Balaenidae, in the genera Eubalaena (three species) and Balaena (one species, the bowhead whale, also called the Greenland right whale).