minke
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ki noun
a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
Also called minke whale, lesser rorqual.
Origin:
1930–35; < Norwegian minkehval, allegedly after a crew member of the Norwegian whaling pioneer Svend Foyn (1809–94), named Meincke, who mistook a pod of minkes for blue whales
1930–35; < Norwegian minkehval, allegedly after a crew member of the Norwegian whaling pioneer Svend Foyn (1809–94), named Meincke, who mistook a pod of minkes for blue whales
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By day's end, six minke and seven humpbacks had been sighted with successful biopsies obtained from one minke and three humpbacks.
Engines idled, cameras snapped and the lone minke whale dove deep and disappeared.
The small, wedge-shaped minke whales are relatively plentiful.
Finback and minke whales appear first, followed by humpback whales in midsummer.
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