humpback

Examples

• All

• What's likely the world's largest migration of humpback whales turns the water into a highway.

• Our friends, the humpbacks, dip in here to the San Francisco Bay... for a little leisure and a little breeding.

  Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

• Up close, the humpback is huge, at least 45 feet long.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The native call of the large male humpback whale.

  2010: Moby Dick (2010)

• And we noticed a change in how humpback whales communicate in quiet versus how humpback whales communicate in noise.

  StarTalk

• Humpback whales will migrate past this coastline every year during winter.

  Envoy: Shark Cull (2021)

• During the summer, humpback whales feed offshore, and we can see their distant spouts.

  Academic text (2007)

• There's some fun news because yesterday, just a few blocks from where I sit, a humpback whale was spotted in the Hudson River.

• I am here with a Cousteau flying team, researching humpback whales.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The Zodiac's rubber pontoon beneath me is vibrating to the rhythmic sound of a humpback singing nearby.

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

W

whale

vshumpback

809 1.0

A very large sea animal with a blowhole for breathing

is a particular baleen species noted for songs and acrobatic diving

H

humpback whale

vshumpback

6 2.7

A large whale with long flippers that arches its back when diving

is the shorter common form of the same species name

B

baleen whale

vshumpback

• Specialized

1 5.6

A large whale with plates in its mouth that filter tiny sea animals

is a particular baleen species with long flippers and unique songs

M

Megaptera novaeangliae

vshumpback

• Specialized

9.9

A large whale with long flippers that often bends its back when diving

is the everyday name used instead of the scientific term

M

Megaptera

vshumpback

• Specialized

9.9

A large whale with long fins called the humpback whale

is one specific species within that broader genus grouping

W

whalebone whale

vshumpback

• Archaic

7.7

A large whale that uses thin, brush-like plates in its mouth to filter tiny sea animals from water

is a specific member of that filtering group with distinct diving arch

Compounds

H

humpback whale

6 2.7

A large whale with long flippers that arches its back when diving

H

humpback bridge

6.7

A small crossing with a steep curved middle that people and cars use over water

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology