bowhead
弓头,弓头鱼,弓箭手,碗头
Definitions
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- : a baleen whale, Balaena mysticetus, of northern seas, having an enormous head and mouth: an endangered species.
Examples
Bathsheba Demuth, an environmental historian at Brown University, was reading 19th century whalers’ logbooks on bowhead whales in the Bering Strait when she noticed a striking shift.
Somewhat crestfallen, the striking pair repaired to the Bowhead saloon to discuss the situation over a glass of beer.
McGuffey was willing so they left the bulkhead for the more convivial shelter of the Bowhead saloon.
He went up to the Bowhead saloon, had a drink, leaned on the end of the bar and thought it over.
Two of these, the bowhead or Greenland whale, and its more widely distributed close relative the right whale, are baleen whales.
The bowhead and right whales may be readily distinguished from one another by the characters listed below for stranded specimens.