blubber

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-000841

A thick layer of insulating adipose tissue found beneath the skin of aquatic mammals such as whales, seals, walruses and manatees.

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-AGR-000841
Field	Agriculture and food
Subject	Animals, Livestock, One Health
References	NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See also	adipose tissue; blubber oil
Translations	Spanish: grasa subcutánea de mamíferos acuáticos

Record as JSON

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-000841",
  "term": "blubber",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A thick layer of insulating adipose tissue found beneath the skin of aquatic mammals such as whales, seals, walruses and manatees.",
  "subject": "Animals, Livestock, One Health",
  "see_also": [
    "adipose tissue",
    "blubber oil"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "grasa subcutánea de mamíferos acuáticos"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/blubber/"
}

Record 841 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.