balaenoptera : Idioms & Phrases


balaenoptera acutorostrata

  • noun small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific
    lesser rorqual; piked whale; minke whale.
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balaenoptera borealis

  • noun similar to but smaller than the finback whale
    sei whale.
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balaenoptera musculus

  • noun largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
    sulfur bottom; blue whale.
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balaenoptera physalus

  • noun large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific
    fin whale; finback; common rorqual; finback whale.
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genus balaenoptera

  • noun type genus of the Balaenopteridae
    Balaenoptera.
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