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Minke Whale

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Noun

1. balaenoptera acutorostrata, lesser rorqual, minke whale, piked whale

small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific

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Minke Whale

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noun
a type of small whalebone whale or rorqual, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, up to 10 metres long

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Minke Whale

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a small, swift rorqual whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) with a dark body and a light belly

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Minke Whale

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n.
Either of two small, dark gray baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, which is found worldwide and has a white band on the flippers, or B. bonaerensis, which inhabits Antarctic waters.

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