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pilot_whale

pilot whale

English

Noun

pilot whale ‎(plural pilot whales)

Either of two species of whale in the genus Globicephala, dark grey in colour.

Derived terms

Translations

either of two species of whale

Czech: kulohlavec m
Danish: grindehval (da) c
Dutch: griend (nl) m, grindewal m
Estonian: grinda
Faroese: grindahvalur
French: baleine-pilote (fr) f, globicéphale (fr)
German: Grindwal (de) m
Greek: μαυροδέλφινο n ‎(mavrodélfino)
Greenlandic: niisarnaq
Icelandic: marsvín (is) n, grindhvalur (is) m, grind (is) f,
Latvian: grinda f
Lithuanian: grinda f

Norwegian:

Bokmål: grindhval m

Nynorsk: grindkval m
Polish: grindwal m
Portuguese: baleia-piloto f
Russian: гри́нда (ru) f ‎(grínda)
Serbo-Croatian: гринд, grind
Slovak: grinda f
Spanish: calderón (es) m
Swedish: grindval (sv) c
Ukrainian: гринда f ‎(hrínda)