Right Whale

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
RW
Pronunciation
/raɪt weɪl/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Ocean Science

Examples in Context

  1. For two weeks, scientists have been tracking the Northern Right Whale(RW) and planning the unprecedented rescue mission.
  2. The white bumps on a right whale's head are skin abrasions called callosities.
  3. A baby boom has given a lift to the endangered North Atlantic right whale, with a near-record number of births in the just-ended calving season, according to researchers at the New England Aquarium.
  4. Swimming off the coast of Argentina, a female right whale singles out just one of the suitors that are hotly pursuing her.
  5. Veterinarians and others involved in the rescue rushed to New Jersey to examine a young Northern Right Whale(RW) found dead off Long Island hoping there would be clues to the sedation in an autopsy.

Other meanings of RW

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Real World Gov
Read and Write Community
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