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单词 beluga whale
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beluga whale
2. A small white toothed whale, Delphinapterus leucas, of coastal waters in the Arctic. Now usually more fully beluga whale.The identification in quot. 1605 is not certain; it may represent sense 1a.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Monodontidae > genus Delphinapterus (white whale)
beluga1605
white whale1635
whitefish1792
porpoise1841
sea-canary1879
1605 T. Smith Voiage Rushia sig. C2v I might speake verye muche to little purpose of the Stvrgeon... The Porpus, Belluga, Sharke, Seale, Grampas, Salmon, &c.
1625 W. Gourdon in S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iii. viii. 531 There we saw foure or fiue great white fishes swimming, which are foure or fiue yards long, and called by the Russes Belluga, whereof they make Oyle.
1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 357 Another obscure animal of this class is the Beluga, found in the gulph of Ochotsk.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §211 The Beluga or White Whale..rarely visits our own coasts.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 July 11/2 In the placid..waters of the fjords..one meets with..shoals of the beluga, or white whale.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 717 Another peculiarity of the beluga is the possession of a distinct voice.
1958 K. Nelson & C. Ford Klondy: Daughter Gold Rush x. 147 Little white squares of beluga whale skin which had been buried in salty clay for six months to cure them. ‘Muktuk,’ he said, smacking his lips.
2006 K. Petrie Bowhead Whales 19 Beluga whales can be seen following bowheads so they can use the same breathing holes.
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