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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Either of two toothed whales, Globicephala melas or G. macrorhynchus, having black skin and a bulbous head.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as caaing-whale.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Either of two species of whale in the genus Globicephala, dark grey in colour.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school

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