| 单词 | school whale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasschool whale school whale n. now historical and rare a whale that habitually swims as part of a group; spec. a young female whale. ΚΠ 1707 M. Tunstall Smith in J. E. Rattray & T. Twomey Discovering Past: Writings of Jeannette Edwards Rattray (2001) 29 Feb. 24—My company killed a school whale, which made 35 barrels. 1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain III. 89 The very young females..called by the English fishermen school-whales swim so close to one another that they frequently get more than half out of water. 1888 C. M. Newell Isle Palms ix. 67 Both the school-whales and the lone bull were heading along the Equator to the west. 1934 Transcript Rec. by Miles Hanley for Ling. Atlas New Eng. in Jrnl. Eng. Linguistics (1986) 19 212 It wasn't a very big whale. They were what they call school whales. < as lemmas |
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