whalekind

whalekind

English

Etymology

whale +‎ -kind

Noun

whalekind (uncountable)

1. Whales as a collective.
   • 2009, R.A.R. Clouston, The Tempest's Roar‎, page 291:

     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.

   • 2020, Rebecca Giggs, Fathoms: The World in the Whale‎, page 153:

     ("A nation of armless Buddhas" was one Greenpeace cofounder's description of whalekind.)

   • 2021, Rebecca Giggs, Timothy Sweet‎, page 91:

     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.