English > rorqual: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin. |
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| Synonym | razorback |
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| Member of | Balaenopteridae, family Balaenopteridae | rorquals |
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| Narrower | finback, finback whale, fin whale, common rorqual, Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat |
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| lesser rorqual, piked whale, minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata | small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific |
| sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis | Similar to but smaller than the finback whale |
| Broader | baleen whale, whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
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| Spanish | rorcual, yubarta |
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| Catalan | balena amb gep, rorqual |
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