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bowhead whale: see right whale right whale, name for whales of the family Balaenidae. They were so named by whalers, who for centuries considered them "the right whales" to hunt, because they float when killed and because they yield enormous quantities of oil and of baleen.
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bowhead whale (redirected from Balaena mysticetus)

bowhead whale
(redirected from Balaena mysticetus)