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单词 bowhead whale
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bowhead whale


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Noun1.bowhead whale - large-mouthed Arctic whalebowhead whale - large-mouthed Arctic whale Balaena mysticetus, bowhead, Greenland whalebaleen whale, whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the waterBalaena, genus Balaena - type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales

bowhead whale


bowhead whale:

see right whaleright whale,
name for whales of the family Balaenidae. They were so named by whalers, who for centuries considered them "the right whales" to hunt, because they float when killed and because they yield enormous quantities of oil and of baleen.
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bowhead whale


Related to bowhead whale: blue whale
  • noun

Synonyms for bowhead whale

noun large-mouthed Arctic whale

Synonyms

  • Balaena mysticetus
  • bowhead
  • Greenland whale

Related Words

  • baleen whale
  • whalebone whale
  • Balaena
  • genus Balaena
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