单词 | ice whale |
释义 | > as lemmasice whale ice whale n. a whale that frequents the pack ice of the polar regions; spec. the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, of the Arctic. ΚΠ 1822 in G. W. Manby Jrnl. Voy. Greenland 110/2 Some ice whales seen. 1915 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 47 907 The whales remaining all summer in the pack between Point Barrow and Herschel Island are mostly old bulls, and a species of small Arctic ice whale. 2007 Independent (Nexis) 14 June The Eskimo have been called ‘the people of the ice whale’ because without the bowhead we would not exist. < as lemmas |
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