| 单词 | greenland right whale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGreenland right whale Any of several rotund baleen whales constituting the family Balaenidae, having a deeply curved jaw and no dorsal fin, and found in cold and temperate waters: (a) (more fully black right whale) any of those belonging to the genus Eubalaena, having distinctive callosities on the snout and comprising three populations in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern Oceans, now usually recognized as distinct species; (b) (in full Greenland right whale) the bowhead, Balaena mysticetus. Also: (in full pygmy right whale) a small baleen whale, Caperea marginata, found in temperate waters of the southern hemisphere, now placed in a separate family ( Neobalaenidae). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenidae (right whale) right whale1726 whalebone-whale1726 the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenidae (right whale) > genus Balaena (bowhead) steeple-topc1440 Greenland whale1648 right whale1726 north-caper1731 nordcaper1762 mysticete1797 icebreaker1869 poggy1871 bowhead whale1883 bay whale1947 1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 256 The Right, or Whalebone Whale is a large Fish, measuring sixty or seventy Feet in Length, and very bulky. 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. I. i. ii. 43 The whalers, it is true, allow the identity of the Greenland sperm whale and northern right whale with those of the antarctic seas, but their evidence is insufficient. 1869 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15 The Greenland Right Whale of English authors..is the ‘bow-head’ of the Eastern American whalers. 1874 C. Darwin Descent of Man (ed. 2) ii. xvii. 516 The males of the right-whales do not fight together. 1922 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 5 132 The pygmy right whale..differs from the right whale in having a dorsal fin and in its much smaller size. 1955 S. Haden-Guest in G. H. T. Kimble Geogr. Northlands x. 215 In the nineteenth century U.S. vessels found and hunted, also nearly to extinction, the right whales in the north Pacific. 1994 Afr. Environment & Wildlife Nov. 64/2 The southern right whale was so named because it was the ‘right’ whale to hunt: it is slow moving and thus an easy target, floats when dead and yields large amounts of baleen and oil. 2005 Systematic Biol. 54 84/1 The morphological and molecular data sets continue to conflict with respect to the position of the enigmatic pygmy right whale. < as lemmas |
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