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单词 beluga
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
be•lu•ga /bəˈlugə/USA pronunciation   n., pl. -gas, (esp. when thought of as a group) -ga. 
  1. Fisha large white sturgeon, valued as a source of caviar.
  2. MammalsAlso called white whale. a small, white, toothed whale, having a rounded head.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
be•lu•ga  (bə lo̅o̅′gə),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. FishAlso called hausen. a white sturgeon, Huso huso, of the Black and Caspian seas, valued as a source of caviar and isinglass.
  2. MammalsAlso called white whale. a cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, of northern seas, that has a rounded head and is white when adult.
  • *pĭstr- mottled + *-ǫgù a cognate suffix)
  • Russian belúga (now regularly belúkha for the cetacean), equivalent. to bél(yĭ) white + -uga, probably earlier *-ǫga (compare Czech pstruh, Polish pstrąg trout
  • 1585–95

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
beluga /bɪˈluːɡə/ n
  1. a large white sturgeon, Acipenser (or Huso) huso, of the Black and Caspian Seas: a source of caviar and isinglass
  2. another name for white whale
Etymology: 18th Century: from Russian byeluga, from byely white
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