| 单词 | blue whale |
| 释义 | blue whale[ bloo-hweyl, weyl ] / ˈblu ˈʰweɪl, ˈweɪl / nouna migratory baleen whale, Balaenoptera musculus, mostly of oceans and seas in the Southern Hemisphere, the largest mammal ever known, growing to a length of 100 feet (30.5 meters) and having a furrowed, slate-blue skin mottled with lighter spots, in some seas acquiring a yellowish coating of diatoms on the underside: now classified as endangered, it was once hunted nearly to extinction, but international conservation efforts begun in the 1960s have enabled the blue whale population to rebound significantly. Also called sul·fur-bot·tom, sulphur-bottom [suhl-fer-bot-uhm] /ˈsʌl fərˌbɒt əm/ . Origin of blue whaleFirst recorded in 1850–55 Words nearby blue whaleblue vein, blue velvet, blue vitriol, blue-water, blueweed, blue whale, blue whistler, blue-winged teal, bluewood, blue wood aster, bluey Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for blue whaleblue whale nounthe largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera) musculus, closely related and similar to the rorquals: family BalaenopteridaeAlso called: sulphur-bottom 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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