| 单词 | algerine porpoise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAlgerine porpoise 3. Any of various toothed whales. Also Algerine porpoise. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of huddon?c1370 whirlpoolc1450 thirlepollc1460 physeter1581 whirl-about1605 whirl-whale1606 thurlhead1610 black whale1615 blackfish1688 bonefish1752 pollack1774 Algerine1849 sea-boar1859 oil-butt1937 1849 H. Melville Mardi I. xiii. 63 Of a somewhat similar species [to the Black Fish]..were the Algerines; so called, probably, from their corsair propensities; waylaying peaceful fish on the high seas. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxii. 158 Algerine Porpoise. A pirate. Very savage. He is only found, I think, in the Pacific. 1947 R. C. Murphy Logbook for Grace iii. 114 I rushed on deck and saw..several of the rare and little known beaked whales... Captain Cleveland recognized them... He called them ‘algerines’. < as lemmas |
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