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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024min•ke (ming′kē),USA pronunciation n. - Zoology, Mammalsa dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 ft. (10 m): reduced in numbers. Also called min′ke whale′, lesser rorqual.
- Norwegian minkehval, allegedly after a crew member of the Norwegian whaling pioneer Svend Foyn (1809–94), named Meincke, who mistook a pod of minkes for blue whales
- 1930–35
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