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Balaena cisarctica

Right whale \Right" whale`\ (Zo["o]l.)

  1. The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale ( Bal[ae]na mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.

  2. Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale ( Bal[ae]na cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale ( Bal[ae]na Sieboldii); a bone whale.

    Pygmy right whale (Zo["o]l.), a small New Zealand whale (Neobal[ae]na marginata) which is only about sixteen feet long. It produces short, but very elastic and tough, whalebone.