| 单词 | rocknoser |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrocknoser rocknoser n. now historical a North Atlantic right whale, Balaena glacialis, or a bowhead whale, B. mysticetus, that swims in shallow waters close to the shore; cf. rock nosing n. at Compounds 2a(a).This behaviour is said to be characteristic of smaller mature whales migrating southwards along the east coast of Baffin Island in the late summer. ΚΠ 1868 Proc. Zool. Soc. 545 Hence the whaler uses the terms ‘middle-icers’, ‘rock-nosers’, and ‘Pond's-Bay fish’ to designate not a separate species or even variety, but to express a geographical fact and a zoological habit. 1898 Nat. Sci. June 411 From their habit of hugging the shore..these [right] whales are known as ‘rock-nosers’. 1927 Buchan Observer 4 Jan. 7/3 The ‘rocknosers’, as the migrating [bowhead] whales were termed, from their reputed habit of nosing their way south along the rocks, were due at Cape Kater about September 15th. 1990 Arctic 43 149/1 If the whalers were strictly hunting rocknosers, that is, those displaying any of the head-down, tail-up postures that we have observed on Isabella Bank, it is likely that they would have taken a disproportionate number of smaller (and possibly mostly male) whales. < as lemmas |
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