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I’m here to help you find out what all those difficult words mean.

When you find a word in blue italics like this glossary just click on that word and you will find out the meaning immediately.

If there is anything else you want to know about whales, dolphins, porpoises or any sea life just go to starfish starfish Peggy’s Ask Us! page and – ask us!

Glossary

acrobatic

backbone

baleen

baleen whale

barnacle

bird

blowholes

blubber

bow ride

breach

calves

carbohydrates

carnivore

cetaceans

climate change

crustacean

decapod

decibel

develop

dolphin

dorsal

echolocation

ecosystem

ectotherm

endotherm

environment

estuary

exoskeleton

extinct

fins

flipper

fluke

frequency

glands

glossary

habitat

holt

inquisitive

Invertebrates

krill

lagoon

larva

lob tail

log

lower

lunging

Magnify

mammals

marine

Microscope

migrate (to)

Molluscs

oesophagus

offal

orca

Organism

pectoral

Photosynthesis

Phytoplankton

Pigment

pinniped

plankton

pod

pollution

predator

reptile

Reptiles

robust

rorqual

social

species

spraints

spyhopping

squid

Starch

suckle

tail fluke

temperate

tentacles

Territory

toothed whale

tropical

ventral

whale

whale lice

whaling

womb

zooplankton

 

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