くじら
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. whale (Cetacea spp.)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (28 in total)
Cetus (constellation); the Whale
wild boar meat; (lit.) mountain whale
Cetus (constellation); the Whale
whale meat
black and white striped curtain (used at funeral service)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
whalebone; baleen
fin whale; finback (whale); razorback whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
gray whale
whale calf
baleen whale; whalebone whale; mysticete
minke whale; piked whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
toothed whale; odontocete
North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)
Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)
sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
beaked whale; Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus); Greenland right whale
obi with a different colour on each side
Cetartiodactyla; order comprising the even-toed ungulates and whales
Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis); southern minke whale
Eden's whale (Balaenoptera edeni); Bryde's whale
Examples (8 in total)
Have you ever seen a whale?
It was believed that whales were fish.
Most whales feed on plankton.