单词 | rorqual |
释义 | rorqual (once / 128471 pages) n WORD FAMILY rorqual: rorquals USAGE EXAMPLESRorquals, a family that includes blue and humpback whales, feed by engulfing huge volumes of water and food, sometimes bigger than themselves. BBC(May 05, 2015) In rorqual whales, the nerves are packed into a centralized core surrounded by limber “elastin fibers.” Time(May 05, 2015) Identified in the beds were over 40 individual rorquals - the type of large cetacean that includes the modern blue, fin and minke whales. BBC(Feb 26, 2014) n any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin Syn|Hypo|Hyper razorback Balaenoptera physalus, common rorqual, fin whale, finback, finback whale large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific Balaenoptera borealis, sei whalesimilar to but smaller than the finback whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata, lesser rorqual, minke whale, piked whalesmall finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific baleen whale, whalebone whale whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
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