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Razorback   Listen
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Razorback  n.  (Zool.) The rorqual.





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"Razorback" Quotes from Famous Books



... much shorter whalebone, consequently are not so much sought after by whalers, as the risk in attacking them is not compensated for by the commercial results. Many of them grow to enormous size, far exceeding any of the baleen whales. The common rorqual, razorback, or pike-whale of the English coasts (B. musculus) attains a length of seventy feet; it is black above and pure white below. The sulphur-bottom whale (B. sulfureus) is known by its yellowish belly, and with Sibbald's whale (B. Sibbaldii) grows to a length of one hundred feet, to ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale


Words linked to "Razorback" :   lesser rorqual, common rorqual, razor-backed, finback, razorback hog, swine, minke whale, Balaenoptera borealis, Balaenoptera physalus, razorbacked hog, backed, rorqual, sei whale, Balaenopteridae, baleen whale, whalebone whale, finback whale


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