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Grammar : Noun
Spell : rawr-kwuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɔr kwəl

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Définition of rorqual

  • As in whale : noun cetacean mammal
Example sentences :
  • That of the extinct Halitherium recalls the pelvis of the Rorqual.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • What is temporary in the Rorqual appears to be permanent in the Sotalia.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • Another visitor, the Rorqual, is not welcomed by the fishermen.
  • Extract from : « Within the Deep » by R. Cadwallader Smith
  • It has, however, the general outline of a Rorqual, with a relatively small head.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • Captain Scoresby indeed mentions a Rorqual no less than 120 feet in length, but this is probably too great an estimate.
  • Extract from : « The Beauties of Nature » by Sir John Lubbock
  • The rorqual feeds partly upon the small creatures which it captures by means of its whalebone strainer, and partly upon fishes.
  • Extract from : « The Animal World, A Book of Natural History » by Theodore Wood
  • The only other rorqual to do so—the blue whale—raises the flukes slightly or not at all.
  • Extract from : « Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic » by Stephen Leatherwood
  • He came out to meet me upon the back of a mighty 'rorqual,' and a body-guard of four hundred picked narwhals swam before him.
  • Extract from : « Tales of the Chesapeake » by George Alfred Townsend
  • Rorqual, ror′kwal, n. a genus of whales of the largest size.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
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