| 单词 | whale |
| 释义 | whale (once / 354 pages) nv WORD FAMILY whale: whaled, whaler, whales, whaling+/whaler: whalers USAGE EXAMPLESNor should the leopard skin, the narwhal tusk and the whale meat. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) Russ Mullins says the drone was 20 to 30 yards over a pod of whales. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) The Hudson whale was seen above the George Washington bridge, which connects New York and New Jersey at the north-west tip of Manhattan. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head Hypo|Hyper baleen whale, whalebone whale whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water toothed whaleany of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal, narwhalesmall Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk spoutera spouting whale right whalelarge Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil Balaena mysticetus, Greenland whale, bowhead, bowhead whalelarge-mouthed Arctic whale razorback, rorqualany of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale, sulfur bottomlargest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere Megaptera novaeangliae, humpback, humpback whalelarge whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, devilfish, gray whale, grey whalemedium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific Physeter catodon, black whale, cachalot, sperm whalelarge whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris Kogia breviceps, pygmy sperm whalesmall sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America Kogia simus, dwarf sperm whalevery small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific beaked whaleany of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw dolphinany of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises blower, cetacean, cetacean mammal large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals 2n a very large person; impressive in size or qualities Syn|Hyper giant, heavyweight, hulk large person a person of greater than average size 3v hunt for whales Hyper hunt, hunt down, run, track down pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) |
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