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whale

A marine animal
cetacean, leviathan, King of the Deep; see fish.
Types of whales include: sperm, white, blue, right, Greenland, sulphur-bottom, killer, gray, baleen, bottlenose, beaked, toothed, pilot, narwhal, finback, finner, humpback, beluga, blackfish, rorqual, common rorqual, blue rorqual.
*Something impressive
a great deal, a lot, abundance, a great quantity, large amount, corker*, whopper*, helluva lot*.

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