📚 noun • entry_id 37601
right whale
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ballena franca
Any baleen whale of the genus Eubalaena.
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…
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.
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