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Finback whale

noun
1.
Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific.  Synonyms: Balaenoptera physalus, common rorqual, fin whale, finback.






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"Finback whale" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fish was an immense cloud of sea-gulls—so many were there, and so thick were they, that the fluttering of their wings was like a swift fall of snow. Over the gulls were eagles soaring and watching their chance. The halibut, the cod, the porpoise, and the finback whale had followed the little ones out of the deep; and there was confusion worse confounded, and chaos came again in the hours of wild excitement that followed the advent of the small fry, for each and all in sea and air were bent upon the ...
— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard



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