Balaenoptera musculus


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Noun1.Balaenoptera musculus - largest mammal ever knownBalaenoptera musculus - largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
blue whale, sulfur bottom
baleen whale, whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
Balaenoptera, genus Balaenoptera - type genus of the Balaenopteridae
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