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Not a fish, but a cetaceous mammal.
A group of whales is called a school.
The fat is called blubber.
The female is called a cow.
The fore-limbs are called paddles.
The male is called a bull-whale.
The spear used in whale-fishing is called a harpoon.
The young of whales is a cub or calf.
Toothed-whales include sperm-whales and dolphins.
Whale-bone whales include rorquals and humpbacks.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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