pilot whale

English

Noun

pilot whale (plural pilot whales)

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

   Synonyms: blackfish, caaing whale, social whale, deductor

Derived terms

• long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas)
• short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)

Translations

either of two species of whale

• Asturian: calderón (ast), arruaxe (ast), moscote (ast)
• Bulgarian: гринда f (grinda)
• Catalan: cap d'olla negre (ca) m
• Czech: kulohlavec m
• Danish: grindehval (da) c
• Dutch: griend (nl) m, grindewal (nl) m
• Faroese: grindahvalur
• Finnish: pallopäävalas (fi)
• 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
• Maori: upokohue, tukuperu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grindhval m

  Nynorsk: grindkval m

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