Whale: alternatives and connections

A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were in…

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are at…

The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six fee…

any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders tha…

An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young w…

One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…

An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the…

A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are know…

web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks

A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, tri…

Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidae. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving a…

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet…

Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…

A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the…