finback

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Now, a finback is built more for speed an' has a big fin on the back--that's where it gets its name.

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  1. noun A rorqual, especially Balaenoptera physalus of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, that attains a length of about 21 meters (70 feet). Also called fin whale.

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  • “Do you know Sheriff Hairy Harry?” Ishmael discussed Hairy Harry while the Tailorcraft wiggled through the last hundred miles to Jameson, in between showing his passenger such curiosities as a finback whale coming up to spout between dives, over seventy feet of smoothly shaped gray-blue creature calmly pursuing a majestic existence framed by whitecaps on green waves. —  Just a Corpse at Twilight - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-de Gier 12
  • Good Housekeeping covergirl in her halter-neck print dresses, mint finback Chevy rentals, and all the proper tropes herded into place: disbelieving small-town constabulary; a tabloid-addled hick; necking teenagers; and a final, contemplative "We're not alone" monologue. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • EASTHAM - A young 40-foot male finback whale that was found stranded and alive this morning on the ice and snow at Dyer Prince Beach has died, the Cape Cod Times reported today .. —  Home - BostonHerald.com
  • Sarah Sharp of International Fund for Animal Welfare's marine mammal rescue team said the whale is a young finback species. —  Home - BostonHerald.com
  • - A 35-foot finback whale has died in the latest in a series of marine mammal strandings on Cape Cod. —  News for turnto10.com
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