| 单词 | sulphur-bottom |
| 释义 | > as lemmassulphur-bottom sulphur-bottom n. (also sulphur-bottom whale) Sibbald's rorqual (see Sibbald n.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenopteridae > genus Balaenoptera (rorqual) > species musculus (blue whale) sulphur-bottom1782 blue whale1851 Sibbald1897 1782 ‘J. H. St. J. de Crèvecœur’ Lett. from Amer. Farmer vi. 169 The *sulphur-bottom, river St. Laurence, ninety feet long. 1829 T. C. Haliburton Hist. & Statist. Acct. Nova Scotia II. ix. 404 Fish-Whale Species. *Sulphur Whale. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxii. 153 Adieu, Sulphur Bottom! a1860 J. W. Dawson in Borthwick's Br. Amer. Rar. 221 Another rorqual..is known from its yellow belly as the sulphur-whale. 1904 F. T. Bullen Creatures of Sea xiv. 177 A huge sulphur-bottom whale..which..attains a maximum length of one hundred and fifty feet. 1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. iv. 94 These blue whales are the great sulphur-bottoms. 1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea II. xv. 280 It [sc. Sibbald's rorqual] has also been called the sulphur-bottom whale on account of a yellowish scum of diatoms which these whales usually carry when they first return to polar waters again after visiting warmer latitudes for breeding. < as lemmas |
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