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GENUS BALAENOPTERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Balaenopteridae
Synonyms:
Balaenoptera; genus Balaenoptera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Balaenoptera" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "genus Balaenoptera"):
Balaenoptera musculus; blue whale; sulfur bottom (largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere)
Balaenoptera physalus; common rorqual; fin whale; finback; finback whale (large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific)
Balaenoptera borealis; sei whale (similar to but smaller than the finback whale)
Balaenoptera acutorostrata; lesser rorqual; minke whale; piked whale (small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific)
Holonyms ("genus Balaenoptera" is a member of...):
Balaenopteridae; family Balaenopteridae (rorquals; blue whales)
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