right whalen.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪt ˌweɪl/, U.S.

/ˈraɪt ˌweɪl/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adj., whale n.

Etymology: < right adj. + whale n.Most commonly explained as showing right adj. 7a ‘appropriate, suitable’ (see quot. 1994 at main sense), though it also seems possible that it may show right adj. 13.

Any of several rotund baleen whales constituting the family Balaenidae, having a deeply curved jaw and no dorsal fin, and found in cold and temperate waters: (a) (more fully black right whale) any of those belonging to the genus Eubalaena, having distinctive callosities on the snout and comprising three populations in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern Oceans, now usually recognized as distinct species; (b) (in full Greenland right whale) the bowhead, Balaena mysticetus. Also: (in full pygmy right whale) a small baleen whale, Caperea marginata, found in temperate waters of the southern hemisphere, now placed in a separate family ( Neobalaenidae).

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenidae (right whale)

right whale1726

whalebone-whale1726

the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenidae (right whale) > genus Balaena (bowhead)

steeple-topc1440

Greenland whale1648

right whale1726

north-caper1731

nordcaper1762

mysticete1797

icebreaker1869

poggy1871

bowhead whale1883

bay whale1947

1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 256 The Right, or Whalebone Whale is a large Fish, measuring sixty or seventy Feet in Length, and very bulky.

1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. I. i. ii. 43 The whalers, it is true, allow the identity of the Greenland sperm whale and northern right whale with those of the antarctic seas, but their evidence is insufficient.

1869 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15 The Greenland Right Whale of English authors..is the ‘bow-head’ of the Eastern American whalers.

1874 C. Darwin Descent of Man (ed. 2) ii. xvii. 516 The males of the right-whales do not fight together.

1922 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 5 132 The pygmy right whale..differs from the right whale in having a dorsal fin and in its much smaller size.

1955 S. Haden-Guest in G. H. T. Kimble Geogr. Northlands x. 215 In the nineteenth century U.S. vessels found and hunted, also nearly to extinction, the right whales in the north Pacific.

1994 Afr. Environment & Wildlife Nov. 64/2 The southern right whale was so named because it was the ‘right’ whale to hunt: it is slow moving and thus an easy target, floats when dead and yields large amounts of baleen and oil.

2005 Systematic Biol. 54 84/1 The morphological and molecular data sets continue to conflict with respect to the position of the enigmatic pygmy right whale.

Compounds

right whale dolphin n. either of two slender dolphins of the genus Lissodelphis, found respectively in the North Pacific ( L. borealis) and the Southern Ocean ( L. peronii), having a white belly and lacking a dorsal fin. [So called because they resemble right whales in having no dorsal fin.]

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1889 Cent. Dict. at Leucorhamphus There are two species:..L. borealis of the same [sc. western] coast of North America, called the right-whale dolphin.

1940 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 72/2 Right Whale Dolphins are so called because of the absence of a dorsal fin, a character they share with the larger Right Whale.

2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 459/2 The Southern rightwhale dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii ) is only found in temperate waters.

right whale porpoise n. now rare = right whale dolphin n.

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1837 F. D. Bennett in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 7 211 This porpoise has been noticed by the French naturalist Péron, and has hence been named Delphinus Peronii. From the absence of a dorsal fin, it is known amongst seamen as the ‘right whale porpoise’.

1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. i. ix. 101 The Right Whale Porpoise of the western coast of North America..is nearly the same as the Right Whale Porpoise of the southern hemisphere.

1979 Final Environmental Statement: OCS Sale No. 48 (U.S. Dept. Interior) I. ii. 271 The second group is the continental shelf group composed of Risso's porpoise, right whale porpoise, various beaked whales, [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈright ˌwhaler n. a person or ship engaged in right whaling.

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1844 Merchants' Mag. 10 388 106 two-season right whalers that may arrive in 1844, with 1,950 whale and 250 sperm each.

1992 P. O'Brian Truelove ix. 227 We smoked you was no right whaler from the shore.

ˈright ˌwhaling n. the practice or business of catching right whales.

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1835 Connecticut Courant 7 Sept. (Suppl.) 129/1 (heading) Right Whaling.

1849 H. Melville Mardi I. i. 5 This horrid and indecent Right Whaling..is as the butchery of white bears upon blank Greenland icebergs.

1926 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 40 667 The average rate of profit obtained in right whaling was about 6.5 per cent per annum.

2004 P. Clapham Right Whales 53 There were only sporadic catches of this species up until the 1935 ban on all right whaling.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	right whale
释义	right whalen. Brit. /ˈrʌɪt ˌweɪl/, U.S. /ˈraɪt ˌweɪl/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adj., whale n. Etymology: < right adj. + whale n.Most commonly explained as showing right adj. 7a ‘appropriate, suitable’ (see quot. 1994 at main sense), though it also seems possible that it may show right adj. 13. Any of several rotund baleen whales constituting the family Balaenidae, having a deeply curved jaw and no dorsal fin, and found in cold and temperate waters: (a) (more fully black right whale) any of those belonging to the genus Eubalaena, having distinctive callosities on the snout and comprising three populations in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern Oceans, now usually recognized as distinct species; (b) (in full Greenland right whale) the bowhead, Balaena mysticetus. Also: (in full pygmy right whale) a small baleen whale, Caperea marginata, found in temperate waters of the southern hemisphere, now placed in a separate family ( Neobalaenidae). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenidae (right whale) right whale1726 whalebone-whale1726 the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenidae (right whale) > genus Balaena (bowhead) steeple-topc1440 Greenland whale1648 right whale1726 north-caper1731 nordcaper1762 mysticete1797 icebreaker1869 poggy1871 bowhead whale1883 bay whale1947 1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 256 The Right, or Whalebone Whale is a large Fish, measuring sixty or seventy Feet in Length, and very bulky. 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. I. i. ii. 43 The whalers, it is true, allow the identity of the Greenland sperm whale and northern right whale with those of the antarctic seas, but their evidence is insufficient. 1869 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15 The Greenland Right Whale of English authors..is the ‘bow-head’ of the Eastern American whalers. 1874 C. Darwin Descent of Man (ed. 2) ii. xvii. 516 The males of the right-whales do not fight together. 1922 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 5 132 The pygmy right whale..differs from the right whale in having a dorsal fin and in its much smaller size. 1955 S. Haden-Guest in G. H. T. Kimble Geogr. Northlands x. 215 In the nineteenth century U.S. vessels found and hunted, also nearly to extinction, the right whales in the north Pacific. 1994 Afr. Environment & Wildlife Nov. 64/2 The southern right whale was so named because it was the ‘right’ whale to hunt: it is slow moving and thus an easy target, floats when dead and yields large amounts of baleen and oil. 2005 Systematic Biol. 54 84/1 The morphological and molecular data sets continue to conflict with respect to the position of the enigmatic pygmy right whale. Compounds right whale dolphin n. either of two slender dolphins of the genus Lissodelphis, found respectively in the North Pacific ( L. borealis) and the Southern Ocean ( L. peronii), having a white belly and lacking a dorsal fin. [So called because they resemble right whales in having no dorsal fin.] ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. at Leucorhamphus There are two species:..L. borealis of the same [sc. western] coast of North America, called the right-whale dolphin. 1940 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 72/2 Right Whale Dolphins are so called because of the absence of a dorsal fin, a character they share with the larger Right Whale. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 459/2 The Southern rightwhale dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii ) is only found in temperate waters. right whale porpoise n. now rare = right whale dolphin n. ΚΠ 1837 F. D. Bennett in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 7 211 This porpoise has been noticed by the French naturalist Péron, and has hence been named Delphinus Peronii. From the absence of a dorsal fin, it is known amongst seamen as the ‘right whale porpoise’. 1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. i. ix. 101 The Right Whale Porpoise of the western coast of North America..is nearly the same as the Right Whale Porpoise of the southern hemisphere. 1979 Final Environmental Statement: OCS Sale No. 48 (U.S. Dept. Interior) I. ii. 271 The second group is the continental shelf group composed of Risso's porpoise, right whale porpoise, various beaked whales, [etc.]. Derivatives ˈright ˌwhaler n. a person or ship engaged in right whaling. ΚΠ 1844 Merchants' Mag. 10 388 106 two-season right whalers that may arrive in 1844, with 1,950 whale and 250 sperm each. 1992 P. O'Brian Truelove ix. 227 We smoked you was no right whaler from the shore. ˈright ˌwhaling n. the practice or business of catching right whales. ΚΠ 1835 Connecticut Courant 7 Sept. (Suppl.) 129/1 (heading) Right Whaling. 1849 H. Melville Mardi I. i. 5 This horrid and indecent Right Whaling..is as the butchery of white bears upon blank Greenland icebergs. 1926 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 40 667 The average rate of profit obtained in right whaling was about 6.5 per cent per annum. 2004 P. Clapham Right Whales 53 There were only sporadic catches of this species up until the 1935 ban on all right whaling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1726
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