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Meanings of beluga in English

Portuguese
baleia-branca
Catalan
balena blanca
Wikidata

(Delphinapterus leucas) An Arctic and sub-Arctic species of cetacean, all white in color with a distinctive melon-shaped head.

        baleia-branca
        Portuguese
        esturjão-branco

        Valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas.

              esturjão-branco
              Usage of beluga in English
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              Monks inspecting water reservoirs where sturgeon, beluga and starlet are being bred.
              The Guardian
              2
              He also suggested I bring some of my new shipment- aniceCaspian beluga.
              French pressed
              3
              Zaslavsky would not go into detail about future pricing for his beluga caviar.
              Reuters
              4
              We'll make it affordable to anybody who wants to try beluga, he said.
              Reuters
              5
              Let me start by saying that I find beluga whales to be creepy.
              Wired
              6
              They always clustered together in great colonies, resembling blankets of beluga.
              The Neutronium Alchemist
              7
              It is scientifically impossible to be sad while looking at a beluga whale.
              Independent.ie
              8
              The other was a beluga, with long, thin wisps pulled into a ponytail.
              Cross Bones
              9
              In a storeroom, Voskresensky keep tubs full of Russian sturgeon, beluga and starlet.
              The Guardian
              10
              Above us hung a beluga whale, casualty of some Pleistocene misfortune.
              Death du Jour
              11
              But Engstrom also knows a thing or two about the guilty pleasures of beluga caviar.
              Reuters
              12
              The Mystic Aquarium offers New England's only beluga whales.
              Wired
              13
              We hope to send a man to Alaska for a beluga whale & some walruses.
              The new yorker
              14
              Sandaled feet swung out, followed by a beluga body.
              Bones Are Forever
              15
              It renders beluga caviar indistinguishable from tinned ham, a duchess as creaturely as a dog.
              The Guardian
              16
              Know by these presents that I had 45 pounds of expensive beluga caviar in my freezer.
              Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
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