balaenoptera musculus | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun balaenoptera musculus has 1 sense

blue whale, sulfur bottom, Balaenoptera musculus - largest mammal ever known; bluish-gray migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
--₁ is a kind of baleen whale, whalebone whale
--₁ is a member of Balaenoptera, genus Balaenoptera