| 单词 | whalebone whale |
| 释义 | whalebone whale (once / 196989 pages) n WORD FAMILY whalebone whale: whalebone whales USAGE EXAMPLESScientists recognize two suborders of living cetaceans: the whalebone whales, suborder Mysticeti, and the toothed whales, suborder Odontoceti. Caldwell, David, Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of...(2010) The first section is that of the whalebone whales, or Mystacoceti, in which no functional teeth are developed, although there are tooth-germs during foetal life. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2010) The colossal sperm-whale, undisputed lord of the ocean, never came into these cold northern waters; and the huge, blundering whalebone whales he despised. Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, The Haunters of the Silences—A Book...(2010) n whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water Syn|Hypo|Hyper baleen whale right whale large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil Balaena mysticetus, Greenland whale, bowhead, bowhead whalelarge-mouthed Arctic whale razorback, rorqualany of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale, sulfur bottomlargest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere Megaptera novaeangliae, humpback, humpback whalelarge whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, devilfish, gray whale, grey whalemedium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific Balaenoptera physalus, common rorqual, fin whale, finback, finback whalelarge 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 whale any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
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