单词 | little piked whale |
释义 | > as lemmaslittle piked whale More fully little piked whale. = minke n. Cf. pike whale n. at pike n.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenopteridae > genus Balaenoptera (rorqual) > species acutorostrata (minke) pike-headed whale1730 piked whale1787 pike whale1820 minke whale1931 1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 379 This white colour begins by a regular determined line, as in the Grampus, Piked Whale, &c. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 577/2 The subclavian artery in the Piked Whale. 1868 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 158 201 The animal proved to be the Piked Whale of Pennant, Balæna rostrata of O. Fabricius. 1917 Science 26 Jan. 89/2 The species treated are:..(5) little piked whale (B. acuto-rostratus). 1953 Amer. Midland Naturalist 49 125 There are a number of records of the piked whale for the New England States. 2001 National Geographic (Nexis) 1 Apr. 58 Also known as little piked whales and pikeheads, minkes are the smallest members of a family of baleen whales called rorquals. < as lemmas |
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