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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two small, dark gray baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, which is found worldwide and has a white band on the flippers, or B. bonaerensis, which inhabits Antarctic waters.
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- noun either of two
baleen whales ,Balaenoptera acutorostrata andBalaenoptera bonaerensis found incoastal waters
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Partial translation of Norwegian minkehval : minke (perhaps after Meincke, member of a 19th-century Norwegian whaling crew) + hval, whale.]
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