blue whale

英语

Illustration of an adult blue whale alongside a human for size reference.
成年蓝鲸与人类的大小对比。

名词

blue whale (复数 blue whales)

1. 蓝鲸 (Balaenoptera musculus)
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick，页号 131:

     But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing.

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近义词

• sulfur-bottom whale
• sulphur bottom whale