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minke whale [miŋ′kə]n.a small, swift rorqual whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) with a dark body and a light belly
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Minke whale — A surfacing minke whale, Skjálfandi, Iceland Size compared to an average human … Wikipedia
minke whale — [miŋ′kə] n. a small, swift rorqual whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) with a dark body and a light belly … English World dictionary
Minke Whale — Taxobox name = Minke Whale status = Text image caption = A surfacing Minke Whale, Skjálfandi, Iceland image2 caption = Size comparison against an average human regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia subclassis = Eutheria ordo =… … Wikipedia
minke whale — noun small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific • Syn: ↑lesser rorqual, ↑piked whale, ↑Balaenoptera acutorostrata • Hypernyms: ↑rorqual, ↑razorback • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
minke whale — noun Etymology: part translation of Norwegian minkehval, from minke (perhaps from Meincke, a crewman of Svend Foyn died 1894 Norwegian whaler) + hval whale Date: 1939 a small grayish baleen whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) with a whitish… … New Collegiate Dictionary
minke whale — noun either of two baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis found in coastal waters Syn: minke, piked whale, lesser rorqual … Wiktionary
minke whale — /mɪŋki ˈweɪl/ (say mingkee wayl) noun a type of small rorqual, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, which grows up to ten metres long and is found in temperate and polar seas. Also, minke. {Norwegian minkehval (now obsolete), from minke, apparently after… …
Common minke whale — Common minke whale[1] Lithography by Bocourt … Wikipedia
Common Minke Whale — Taxobox name = Common Minke Whale MSW3 Cetacea|id=14300012] status = LC status system = iucn3.1 status ref =IUCN2008|assessors=Reilly, S.B., Bannister, J.L., Best, P.B., Brown, M., Brownell Jr., R.L., Butterworth, D.S., Clapham, P.J., Cooke, J.,… … Wikipedia
Antarctic Minke Whale — Taxobox name = Antarctic Minke Whale MSW3 Cetacea|id=14300013] status = DD status system = iucn3.1 status ref =IUCN2008|assessors=Reilly, S.B., Bannister, J.L., Best, P.B., Brown, M., Brownell Jr., R.L., Butterworth, D.S., Clapham, P.J., Cooke, J … Wikipedia
