单词 | beluga |
释义 | beluga[ buh-loo-guh ] / bəˈlu gə / SEE SYNONYMS FOR beluga ON THESAURUS.COM nounAlso called hausen. a white sturgeon, Huso huso, of the Black and Caspian seas, valued as a source of caviar and isinglass. Also called sea canary, white whale. a cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, of northern seas, that has a rounded head and is white when adult. Origin of beluga1585–95; <Russian belúga (now regularly belúkha for the cetacean), equivalent to bél(yĭ) white + -uga, probably earlier *-ǫga (compare Czech pstruh,Polish pstrąg trout <*pĭstr- mottled + *-ǫgŭ a cognate suffix) Words nearby belugaBeltsville small white, Beltsy, belt-tightening, belt up, beltway, beluga, Belukha, belvedere, Belvidere, Belvoir Castle, Bely Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for belugaBritish Dictionary definitions for belugabeluga / (bɪˈluːɡə) / nouna large white sturgeon, Acipenser (or Huso) huso, of the Black and Caspian Seas: a source of caviar and isinglass another name for white whale Word Origin for belugaC18: from Russian byeluga, from byely white Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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