different between baleen vs rorqual

English

Etymology

From Middle English baleyne, from Old French baleine (“whale, whalebone”), from Latin balaena (“whale”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (phálaina, “whale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?li?n/

Noun

baleen (countable and uncountable, plural baleens)

1. (obsolete) A whale or its flesh. [14th–17th c.]
2. (physiology, uncountable) The bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry [from 14th c.]
3. (zoology, countable) a baleen whale

Synonyms

• whalebone

Translations

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Baleen”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 635, column 2.

Anagrams

• enable

Spanish

Verb

baleen

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of balear.
2. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of balear.
3. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of balear.

English

Etymology

From Norwegian røyrkval, from Old Norse reyðarhvalr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????kw?l/

Noun

rorqual (plural rorquals)

1. Any whale of family Balaenopteridae, with longitudinal skin folds running from below the mouth to the navel, allowing the capacity of the mouth to expand greatly when feeding.
   • 1873 – Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Ch. 1 (transl. by F. P. Walter)

     Now then, the biggest whales, those rorqual whales that frequent the waterways of the Aleutian Islands, have never exceeded a length of 56 meters--if they reach even that.

Translations

See also

• baleen

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ro??kwal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /rur?kwal/

Noun

rorqual m (plural rorquals)

1. rorqual (any whale species with long skin folds below mouth)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian røyrkval (“furrow whale”), from Old Norse reyðarhvalr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.k(w)al/

Noun

rorqual m (plural rorquals)

1. rorqual

Derived terms

• rorqual bleu

Further reading

• “rorqual” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

rorqual m (plural rorquais)

1. rorqual (any whale species with long skin folds below mouth)