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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A whale.
Wiktionary
- n. Any fish of the Cetomimiformes order of ray-finned fish.
Examples
“An interesting case where male, female, and larval forms of deep-sea whalefish were separated into three different families, and now resolved.”
“Cetomimidae, a type of whalefish, had been known since the 19th century, but only females had been found.”
“There's a whale, there's a whale, there's a whalefish, he cried”
“Leviathan is the great whalefish or seadragon, so called of the fast joyning together of his scales as he is described Job 40: 20, 41 and is used to resemble great tyrants.”
“Three deep-sea fish that few people ever see: the bignose fish, the whalefish, and the tapetails (including hairyfish) were studied.”
“A bignose fish is a male whalefish, and the tapetails and hairyfish are the larvae.”
“The larval whalefish are even stranger (upper image with inset of body in close-up).”
“Male (lower image, top) and female (lower image, bottom) whalefish look so different that researchers have only now recognized that the two belong in the same family.”
“I'm sure the whalefish is relieved to have this cleared up.”
“But the youngsters didn't look at all like whalefish, the researchers wrote then.”
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chained_bear That's what was thought a long time ago, yes. Nov 7, 2008
bilby Fish! Nov 7, 2008
chained_bear "The lookout, in the crosstrees he stood/With spyglass in his hand;/There's a whale, there's a whale,/And a whalefish he cried,/And she blows at every span..." -- "Greenland Whale Fisheries," traditional, arranged by the Pogues, c. 1985.
Plural: whalefishes. Usage: "Oh Greenland is a barren land/A land that bears no green/Where there's ice and snow, and the whalefishes blow,/And the daylight's seldom seen..." (citation above)
Feb 6, 2007