finback-whale

fin·back

[fin-bak]
noun
any baleen whale of the genus Balaenoptera, having a prominent dorsal fin, especially B. physalus, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts; rorqual: an endangered species.
Also called finback whale, fin whale.


Origin:
1715–25; fin + back1

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finback (ˈfɪnˌbæk) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
another name for rorqual

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Finback-whale is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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