rorqual

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹɔːkwəl/    美 /ˈɹɔɹkwəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any whale of family Balaenopteridae, with longitudinal skin folds running from below the mouth to the navel, allowing the capacity of the mouth to expand greatly when feeding.
    — Now then, the biggest whales, those rorqual whales that frequent the waterways of the Aleutian Islands, have never exceeded a length of 56 meters--if they reach even that.

词形变化

rorquals plural

词源

From Norwegian Nynorsk røyrkval, from Old Norse reyðarhvalr (“fin whale”).
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