beluga

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The beluga was afterward killed at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, it having towed the body considerably more than one thousand miles For clothing, deerskins were stretched and scraped with flint instruments, then dressed with powdered heavy-spar, making the skin soft and pliable.

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  1. noun See white whale.
  2. noun A large white sturgeon (Huso huso) of the Black and Caspian seas, whose roe is processed into caviar. Also called beluga sturgeon, whitefish.

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  • Back at the beluga, two nanulaks nibbled at the whale's gut. —  AnalogSFF,May2008
  • When Jean-Michel Cousteau set out on his latest mission to record and reflect on the state of the world's oceans, he knew the situation was dire for sea-dwelling creatures, especially for species atop the food chain such as beluga and killer whales. —  independent.com stories
  • Marc Lammers of the University of Hawaii and Manuel Castellote of Oceanografic speculate that the double sonar system holds several advantages for the beluga. —  News24
  • Iran was the last place on earth still swimming in cheap and plentiful beluga, ossetra, or the even more rare sevruga. —  National Review Online
  • Posts: 707 beluga - I thought my great uncle's Smithsonian Folkways recording of different frog sounds was at the top of the quirky classics list, until I listened to your turkey recordings. —  Mandolin Cafe News
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  1. Russian belukha, white whale, and beluga, sturgeon : belyĭ, white; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots + -uga, -ukha, augmentative suff.

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  1. from Russian bieluga, from bieluiĭ, white; cf. Lithuanian balti, be white.
 

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