gray whale

短语

灰鲸科

词形变化

gray whales 复数 gray whales

别名

grey whale

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A baleen whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from the north Pacific

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

devilfish grey whale

上位词 2

baleen whale whalebone whale

词源

Disputed. Either from the whale’s coloration, or after British zoologist John Edward Gray, who first recognized it as a distinct genus in 1864.

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