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Greenland whale

noun

  1. an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat


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However this may be, the Greenland Whale has been found sixty feet in length, although some other species are smaller.

The Greenland Whale is happiest with cold and ice, so when summer comes it travels north in great numbers.

Of the peculiar make-up of the Greenland Whale the head is certainly the most peculiar of all the parts.

The ocean teems with small creatures; even the huge Greenland Whale feeds on them, and the Herring seems to live on little else.

And that mass of small life is the food of this mountain of fat and flesh, the Greenland Whale.

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