family Balaenidae

Thesaurus

Noun

1.family Balaenidae - right whales Balaenidaemammal family - a family of mammalsMysticeti, suborder Mysticeti - baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacksright whale - large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oilBalaena, genus Balaena - type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales