单词 | black whale |
释义 | > as lemmasblack whale black whale n. now historical any of several kinds of whale; esp. the southern right whale, Balaena australis; cf. blackfish n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of huddon?c1370 whirlpoolc1450 thirlepollc1460 physeter1581 whirl-about1605 whirl-whale1606 thurlhead1610 black whale1615 blackfish1688 bonefish1752 pollack1774 Algerine1849 sea-boar1859 oil-butt1937 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1101 Neere vnto this Island, about the exterior part, there are many blacke Whales seene, which commonly make warre together. 1744 A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 74 They had seen many black Whales, and other Fish. 1788 T. Jefferson Memorandum Whale Fishery in Papers (1958) XIV. 233 Brazil whale, or Black whale. Smallest of all. Found in same latitude with Spermaceti. 1831 in R. McNab Old Whaling Days (1913) i. 3 The black whales visit the bays and coasts of New Zealand for the purpose of calving. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack vi. 28 The sparmacitty don't take the harpoon quite so quietly as the black whale does. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 11 Globicephalus svineval,..also called Black Whale, Social Whale. 1954 W. B. Rhodes Whaling Jrnl. Introd. p. xvi The pursuit in coastal waters of black whales was known as `bay whaling'. 1982 H. Morton Whale's Wake 23 The Southern right whale—usually called the black whale by the British—migrated to calve in New Zealand..bays. < as lemmas |
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