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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SULPHUR-BOTTOM

SULPHUR-BOTTOM Sul `phur-bot "tom, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: 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.