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Meaning of right whale | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any baleen whale of the genus Eubalaena.

Equivalents

Català balena franca
Español ballena franca
Te Reo Māori tohorā
Polski waleń
Português baleia-franca
Русский ю́жный кит

Examples

“It is said (in what may be an apocryphal story) that around 1712, a Nantucket captain named Christopher Hussey was blown offshore while hunting right whales, and came upon a school of large, bluff-headed whales with forward-angled spouts.”
“The previous night, they’d received a call from the federal Department of Oceans and Fisheries (DFO): a right whale was tangled up in crab trap lines near their location.”

CEFR level

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