| warm-blooded vertebrate with feathers, wings, scaly legs and beak which bear young in shelled eggs |
| cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates with gills, often have fins and elongated body covered with scales |
blubber (ˈblʌbə) ![]() | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to sob without restraint |
| 2. | to utter while sobbing |
| 3. | (tr) to make (the face) wet and swollen or disfigured by crying |
| —n | |
| 4. | a thick insulating layer of fatty tissue below the skin of aquatic mammals such as the whale: used by man as a source of oil |
| 5. | informal excessive and flabby body fat |
| 6. | the act or an instance of weeping without restraint |
| 7. | (Austral) an informal name for jellyfish |
| —adj | |
| 8. | (often in combination) swollen or fleshy: blubber-faced; blubber-lips |
| [C12: perhaps from Low German blubbern to | |
| 'blubberer | |
| —n | |
| blubber (blŭb'ər) Pronunciation Key
The thick layer of fat between the skin and the muscle layers of whales and other marine mammals. It insulates the animal from heat loss and serves as a food reserve. |