- family Balaenidae
- nounright whales• Syn: ↑Balaenidae• Hypernyms: ↑mammal family• Member Holonyms: ↑Mysticeti, ↑suborder Mysticeti• Member Meronyms: ↑right whale, ↑Balaena, ↑genus Balaena
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family Balaenidae
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Balaenidae — n. a family comprising the right whales. Syn: family Balaenidae. [WordNet 1.5] || … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Balaenidae — noun right whales • Syn: ↑family Balaenidae • Hypernyms: ↑mammal family • Member Holonyms: ↑Mysticeti, ↑suborder Mysticeti • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
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mammal family — noun a family of mammals • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑Tachyglossidae, ↑family Tachyglossidae, ↑Ornithorhynchidae, ↑family Ornithorhynchidae, ↑Didelphidae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Right whale — For other uses, see Right whale (disambiguation). Right whales[1] A female North Atlantic Right Whale with her calf in the ocean … Wikipedia
North Pacific right whale — North Pacific right whale[1] Si … Wikipedia
Mammal classification — Over 70% of mammal species are in the orders Rodentia (blue), Chiroptera (red), and Soricomorpha (yellow) Mammalia is a class of animal within the Phylum Chordata. Mammal classification has been through several iterations since Carolus Linnaeus… … Wikipedia
cetacean — cetaceous, adj. /si tay sheuhn/, adj. 1. belonging to the Cetacea, an order of aquatic, chiefly marine mammals, including the whales and dolphins. n. 2. a cetacean mammal. [1830 40; < NL Cetace(a) name of the order (see CET , ACEA) + AN] * * *… … Universalium
List of cetaceans — Taxobox name = Cetaceans fossil range = Early Eocene Recent image width = 250px image caption = Bottlenose Dolphin breaching regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Mammalia ordo = Cetacea ordo authority = Brisson,… … Wikipedia
right whale — noun large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the right whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil • Hypernyms: ↑baleen whale, ↑whalebone whale • Member Holonyms: ↑Balaenidae, ↑family Balaenidae * * * noun : a large whalebone whale of … Useful english dictionary
