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sulphur-bottom
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sulphur-bottom, n.
A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius , having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale . [1913 Webster]
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