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单词 right whale dolphin
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right whale dolphin
right whale dolphin n. either of two slender dolphins of the genus Lissodelphis, found respectively in the North Pacific ( L. borealis) and the Southern Ocean ( L. peronii), having a white belly and lacking a dorsal fin. [So called because they resemble right whales in having no dorsal fin.]
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1889 Cent. Dict. at Leucorhamphus There are two species:..L. borealis of the same [sc. western] coast of North America, called the right-whale dolphin.
1940 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 72/2 Right Whale Dolphins are so called because of the absence of a dorsal fin, a character they share with the larger Right Whale.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 459/2 The Southern rightwhale dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii ) is only found in temperate waters.
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