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单词 bowhead
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Definition of bowhead in English:

bowhead

(also bowhead whale)
nounˈbəʊhɛdˈbōˌhed
  • An Arctic right whale with black skin, feeding by skimming the surface for plankton.

    北极露脊鲸。亦称G REENLAND RIGHT WHALE

    Balaena mysticetus, family Balaenidae

    Also called Greenland right whale
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Point Hope dancers performed short solo and duet pieces, dressed in white (for snow) and black (for the bowhead whale, which forms the base of their economy).
    • The study places the Eastern Arctic bowhead whale, Western arctic bowhead whale and the Eastern Hudson Bay beluga whale on the list of species facing imminent extinction.
    • The tusked narwhal, white beluga whales and elusive bowhead whale all live off the northern part of this island.
    • One unusual discovery in Norway's Svalbard Islands was a bowhead whale hanging fifty feet above the water, its belly still embedded in the melting glacier that had encased it during the Little Ice Age.
    • The proposal appears to apply in principle to virtually any species except bowheads and blue whales, though in practice I think the government is more interested in assessing stocks of fins, humpbacks, pilot whales and several dolphins.
    • There is no indication that temperate and subtropical large whale species live as long as bowheads.
    • Formerly hunters of Pacific sperm whale, these whaling fleets came to Arctic regions following the bowhead whale migration to the Beaufort Sea for summer feeding.
    • A preliminary glossary of Inuktitut words relating to bowheads, whaling, and related topics has been prepared, but it is not included in the book, as it awaits verification by Inuit elders.
    • As his graphite stylus slid back and forth across the paper, images emerged: a bowhead whale, several reindeer, a bear and bear tracks.
    • Probably the first thing concerned citizens think of when the word ‘endangered’ pops up is an animal: the California condor, the giant panda, the bowhead whale, the leatherback sea turtle.
    • In Greenland, Japan and Norway whale meat is sold in supermarkets, in Russia it has been sold to feed fur-bearers, and in Alaska baleen handicrafts from bowheads are sold to tourists.
    • Shrills, squeaks and groans made by the excited bowheads reverberate through my body.
    • We don't have fruits and vegetables, but the bowhead has minerals and vitamins that provide the nutritional requirements needed to live in the Arctic environment.
    • Like all whales, bowheads are sensitive creatures and getting into the water with one must be done with caution-from the whale's standpoint, not just the diver's.
    • Some of the species found here include the walrus, polar bear, beluga, narwhal, bearded seals, harp seal, harbour seal, ringed seal, bowhead whale, ivory gull, and some migratory birds.
    • One of the world's lesser known whales, the bowhead lives exclusively north of the Arctic Circle, spending four months or more of the year in complete darkness.
    • The three bears had been tearing into remnants of a bowhead whale, recently caught by the villagers on an authorized hunt.
    • Weighing upward of 60 tons and reaching lengths up to 50 feet, the bowhead whale is one of the Arctic's great mysteries.
    • These 39 species include the eastern and western Arctic bowhead whale and beluga whale populations in Ungava Bay, southeast Baffin Island-Cumberland Sound, and eastern Hudson Bay.
    • Hence, if there were intervals when the Davis Strait stock of bowheads ranged into the Arctic Ocean, they ought to have seasonally migrated through Norwegian Bay and Eureka Sound.

Origin

Late 19th century: from bow1 + head.

Definition of bowhead in US English:

bowhead

(also bowhead whale)
nounˈbōˌhed
  • A black Arctic right whale that feeds by skimming the surface for plankton.

    北极露脊鲸。亦称G REENLAND RIGHT WHALE

    Balaena mysticetus, family Balaenidae

    Also called Greenland right whale
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of the species found here include the walrus, polar bear, beluga, narwhal, bearded seals, harp seal, harbour seal, ringed seal, bowhead whale, ivory gull, and some migratory birds.
    • A preliminary glossary of Inuktitut words relating to bowheads, whaling, and related topics has been prepared, but it is not included in the book, as it awaits verification by Inuit elders.
    • The proposal appears to apply in principle to virtually any species except bowheads and blue whales, though in practice I think the government is more interested in assessing stocks of fins, humpbacks, pilot whales and several dolphins.
    • As his graphite stylus slid back and forth across the paper, images emerged: a bowhead whale, several reindeer, a bear and bear tracks.
    • Probably the first thing concerned citizens think of when the word ‘endangered’ pops up is an animal: the California condor, the giant panda, the bowhead whale, the leatherback sea turtle.
    • These 39 species include the eastern and western Arctic bowhead whale and beluga whale populations in Ungava Bay, southeast Baffin Island-Cumberland Sound, and eastern Hudson Bay.
    • One of the world's lesser known whales, the bowhead lives exclusively north of the Arctic Circle, spending four months or more of the year in complete darkness.
    • There is no indication that temperate and subtropical large whale species live as long as bowheads.
    • Shrills, squeaks and groans made by the excited bowheads reverberate through my body.
    • The three bears had been tearing into remnants of a bowhead whale, recently caught by the villagers on an authorized hunt.
    • The Point Hope dancers performed short solo and duet pieces, dressed in white (for snow) and black (for the bowhead whale, which forms the base of their economy).
    • Weighing upward of 60 tons and reaching lengths up to 50 feet, the bowhead whale is one of the Arctic's great mysteries.
    • Formerly hunters of Pacific sperm whale, these whaling fleets came to Arctic regions following the bowhead whale migration to the Beaufort Sea for summer feeding.
    • Like all whales, bowheads are sensitive creatures and getting into the water with one must be done with caution-from the whale's standpoint, not just the diver's.
    • The tusked narwhal, white beluga whales and elusive bowhead whale all live off the northern part of this island.
    • We don't have fruits and vegetables, but the bowhead has minerals and vitamins that provide the nutritional requirements needed to live in the Arctic environment.
    • Hence, if there were intervals when the Davis Strait stock of bowheads ranged into the Arctic Ocean, they ought to have seasonally migrated through Norwegian Bay and Eureka Sound.
    • In Greenland, Japan and Norway whale meat is sold in supermarkets, in Russia it has been sold to feed fur-bearers, and in Alaska baleen handicrafts from bowheads are sold to tourists.
    • One unusual discovery in Norway's Svalbard Islands was a bowhead whale hanging fifty feet above the water, its belly still embedded in the melting glacier that had encased it during the Little Ice Age.
    • The study places the Eastern Arctic bowhead whale, Western arctic bowhead whale and the Eastern Hudson Bay beluga whale on the list of species facing imminent extinction.

Origin

Late 19th century: from bow + head.

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