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pilot whale
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Noun pilot whale has 1 sense
- pilot whale(n = noun.animal) black whale, blackfish, common blackfish, globicephala melaena - small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school; Array is a kind of dolphin
is a member of genus globicephala, globicephala
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