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Balaenoptera

noun

type genus of the Balaenopteridae

• Syn: ↑genus Balaenoptera

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Balaenopteridae, ↑family Balaenopteridae

• Member Meronyms:

↑blue whale, ↑sulfur bottom, ↑Balaenoptera musculus, ↑finback, ↑finback whale, ↑fin whale, ↑common rorqual, ↑Balaenoptera physalus, ↑sei whale, ↑Balaenoptera borealis, ↑lesser rorqual, ↑piked whale, ↑minke whale, ↑Balaenoptera acutorostrata

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\\-ˈnäptərə\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from balaeno- (from Latin balaena whale) + -ptera

: a genus (the type of the family Balaenopteridae) of whalebone whales that comprises the rorquals

Useful english dictionary. 2012.