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blue whale

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal.

Equivalents

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Examples

“But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know⟳ by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help⟳ suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

blue whiting blue wildebeest blue won blue wood sedge blue wren blue zone

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