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beluga /bəˈluːɡə /noun (plural same or belugas)1A small white toothed whale related to the narwhal, living in herds mainly in Arctic coastal waters. Also called white whale.- Delphinapterus leucas, family Monodontidae.
Dolphins and porpoises are examples of odontocetes, as are belugas, narwhals, killer whales, sperm whales, and beaked whales....- The Antarctic lacks small resident toothed whales like the beluga and the narwhal of the Arctic.
- In addition to killing over 200 fin and minke whales, Greenlandic hunters also kill a large, but unknown, number of small whales each year, including belugas, narwhals, pilot whales and orcas.
2A very large sturgeon occurring in the inland seas and associated rivers of central Eurasia.- Huso huso, family Acipenseridae.
Weary fishermen stand waist deep in chilly water and strain every muscle, fighting to subdue the gigantic beluga, great white sturgeon, which they have netted in the muddy Ural river....- Most beluga sturgeon were historically found in the Caspian Sea.
- Then in October 2004 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the beluga sturgeon as endangered.
2.1 (also beluga caviar) [mass noun] Caviar obtained from the beluga sturgeon.Female beluga sturgeon are considered the world's most valuable commercially harvested fish because they supply beluga caviar, one of the most highly prized delicacies in the world....- Female beluga can produce 12% of their body weight in caviar and beluga caviar can demand $200 / kg.
- You whisk the eggs strenuously with a lot of milk and you put the result in a very hot, buttered frying pan and in a minute or less you plonk them on some toast, preferably with some beluga caviar.
OriginLate 16th century (in sense 2): from Russian belukha (sense 1), beluga (sense 2), both from belyĭ 'white'. Rhymescougar, Kaluga, Kruger, Luger |