| 单词 | pothead whale |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspothead whale 3. North American. More fully pothead whale. The long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > genus Globicephala (pilot-whale) social whale1842 pothead1863 ca'ing-whalec1865 pilot whale1867 1863 Islander (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) 14 Aug. 2/3 Large numbers of Potheads are in the Bay, which probably accounts for the squid panic. 1954 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Nov. 17/3 Pot-head whales sell for two cents a pound as fodder. 1969 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float (1976) xii. 135 He grew ecstatic when we passed through a pod of pothead whales, sleek black beasts fifteen feet or more in length, so busy pursuing schools of unseen squid that some of them surfaced and blew within a stone's throw of us. 2002 S. Apollonio Hierarchical Perspectives on Marine Complexities iv. 60 The small, toothed whales variously called the pothead or pilot whale..are moderately abundant and notorious for occasionally committing suicide on the beaches of Cape Cod. < as lemmas |
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