Whalekind
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Whalekind is a noun meaning Whales as a collective.
Meaning
Whales as a collective.
Example Sentences
("A nation of armless Buddhas" was one Greenpeace cofounder's description of whalekind.)
It was a leading question, and its hidden meaning was not lost on any of them, for Triton was a big and powerful Sperm Whale and they knew that he would gladly fight Poseidon for the future of whalekind, even unto death.
He displaces the violence emblemized by the whaling industry away from whales and onto humankind's fate while transcoding Ahab's defiance as the whale's defiance. Thus he projects humanlike consciousness into the deep, whalekind chronology that, Ishmael says, will outlast humankind's fated time.
Related Words
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