All 3 Uses of
gregarious
in
Moby Dick
- The Fin-Back is not gregarious.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular seasons for particular grounds, yet in general you cannot conclude that the herds which haunted such and such a latitude or longitude this year, say, will turn out to be identically the same with those that were found there the preceding season; though there are peculiar and unquestionable instances where the contrary of this has proved true.†
Chpt 43-45
- Even now I am certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious resort.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(gregarious) sociable by nature (enjoys the company of others)