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单词 gibbert
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gibbertn.

Forms: Also 1600s gibbartas, gibbarta, 1600s–1800s gibbar; and see jubartes n.
Etymology: < French gibbar in the same sense.
Obsolete.
A kind of whale, a finner n.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenopteridae > genus Balaenoptera (rorqual)
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jubartes1616
fin-fish1694
scrag-whale1701
fin-back1726
finner1793
razorback1815
rorqual1824
fin-whale1885
sei whale1912
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 288 And in this number is the whale, of which the ancients write, and whome some moderns call Gibbar (bicause that the common whale, which some take for the Musculus of Aristotle doth not answere to the description of this) which is of incredible hugenes.
1620 J. Mason Briefe Disc. New-found-land B What should I speake of a kinde of Whales called Gibberts?
1658 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 3) iii. xxvi. 143 Mariners..called it a Jubartas, or rather Gibbartas... The name Gibbarta we find also given unto one kind of Greenland Whales.
1843 Zoologist 1 34 It..is well known among fishermen and mariners generally by the names of finner..and gibbar.
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