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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Either of two small, dark gray baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, which is found worldwide and has a white band on the flippers, or B. bonaerensis, which inhabits Antarctic waters.

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  • noun either of two baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis found in coastal waters

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Partial translation of Norwegian minkehval : minke (perhaps after Meincke, member of a 19th-century Norwegian whaling crew) + hval, whale.]

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