| 单词 | bowhead whale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbow-head whale In full bow-head whale. The Arctic right whale, Balæna mysticetus. ΚΠ 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 2/2 A bow-head whale preparing to ‘sound’. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 523/2 The ‘bowhead’ of the Okhotsk Sea and Behring Strait. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 129 Hath he..Spoke on the ice with the Bow-head—followed the Sabre-tooth home? 1908 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 2/1 Nothing can possibly prevent the extermination of the bowhead whale..but the discovery of an adequate substitute for whalebone. 1938 Geogr. Jrnl. 92 371 The mammoth bowhead whale. bowhead whale bowhead whale n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ 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 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 201 Slabs of whalebone of Bowhead Whale. < as lemmas |
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