- bowhead whale
- noun Date: 1887 a baleen whale (Balaena mysticetus) of arctic and subarctic seas — called also bowhead
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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bowhead — noun see bowhead whale … New Collegiate Dictionary
