クジラ
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. whale (Cetacea spp.)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (41 in total)
fin whale; finback (whale); razorback whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
minke whale; piked whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
baleen whale; whalebone whale; mysticete
Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)
whale calf
toothed whale; odontocete
North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)
white whale; whiskers from a gray whale (used in crafts)
Cetus (constellation); the Whale
whale meat
whale meat
black and white striped curtain (used at funeral service)
whalebone; baleen
whale calf
whale calf
wild boar meat; (lit.) mountain whale
whale calf
gray whale
(whaling) harpoon
Cetartiodactyla; order comprising the even-toed ungulates and whales
sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
beaked whale (esp. Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris)
larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus); Greenland right whale
Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis); southern minke whale
Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera brydei)
Eden's whale (Balaenoptera edeni); Bryde's whale
spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
obi with a different colour on each side
Cetartiodactyla; order comprising the even-toed ungulates and whales
Examples (8 in total)
Have you ever seen a whale?
It was believed that whales were fish.
Most whales feed on plankton.