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Meaning Of Right whale
The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena
mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the
Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific
right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.