| NOUN | animal | rorqual, razorback | 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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| 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 | |
| Member of | Balaenopteridae, family Balaenopteridae | rorquals |
| Narrower | finback, finback whale, fin whale, common rorqual, Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat |
| 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 |
| Spanish | rorcual, yubarta | |
| Catalan | balena amb gep, rorqual | |
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