单词 | sibbald |
释义 | Sibbaldn. Used in the possessive to designate the blue whale, Balænoptera musculus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenopteridae > genus Balaenoptera (rorqual) > species musculus (blue whale) sulphur-bottom1782 blue whale1851 Sibbald1897 1897 R. Lydekker et al. Conc. Knowl. Nat. Hist. 173 The largest..of all whales, is the blue, or Sibbald's rorqual.., commonly known to the American whalers by the name of ‘sulphur-bottom’. 1920 Brit. Museum Return 101 Tympanic bone of a Sibbald's Rorqual (Balaenoptera musculus). 1921 E. R. G. R. Evans South with Scott v We saw Sibbald's whale, Rorquals, and many killer whales. 1937 Discovery Nov. 357/2 The largest animal known, the blue whale or Sibbald's rorqual. 1972 Oxf. Bk. Vertebrates 190/1 Sibbald's Rorqual..has a world-wide distribution and migrates between high and low latitudes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1897 |
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