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Meanings of bowhead in English

Portuguese
baleia-da-groenlândia
Catalan
balena franca àrtica
Spanish
ballena boreal

Large-mouthed Arctic whale.

        baleia-da-groenlândia
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        Examples for "bowhead whale"
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        But my favorite example of a long-lived creature is the bowhead whale.
        Wired
        2
        The former vertebrate record-holder was a bowhead whale estimated to be 211 years old.
        Radio NZ
        3
        The bowhead whale has the largest mouth of any animal, but it does not use it to bite.
        BBC
        4
        Then, one day he came upon the carcass of an immense bowhead whale far north on the Alaskan shore.
        The Blue Envelope
        5
        Until now it's the bowhead whale you've hunted, and it won't risk going past the warm waters of the equator.
        Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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        In another respect, the sperm is very different from the Greenland whale.
        Old Jack
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        The Greenland whale is less in size than the sperm-its length being about 60 feet.
        Old Jack
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        The sperm whale we had taken is very different to the Greenland whale of the North.
        Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading
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        I believe you wish to make some additional statement with regard to the Greenland whale fishery?-Yes.
        Second Shetland Truck System Report
        5
        Nay; what thing, for example, is there in the Greenland whale's anatomy more striking than his baleen?
        Moby Dick
        Usage of bowhead in English
        1
        But my favorite example of a long-lived creature is the bowhead whale.
        Wired
        2
        Scientists have stumbled upon a secret hideaway used by bowhead whales.
        BBC
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        Another complication is that it is difficult to count bowhead whales.
        BBC
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        To their surprise, they sighted a number of bowhead whales swimming in the polynya.
        BBC
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        In the wider world it is deeply controversial, because it comes from bowhead whales.
        BBC
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        In waters further north live bowhead whales, the Arctic specialists.
        BBC
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        The former vertebrate record-holder was a bowhead whale estimated to be 211 years old.
        Radio NZ
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        When people first started telling me about the bowhead hunt, my head was filled with questions.
        BBC
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        The Inuit now hunt limited numbers of fin and bowhead whales for local consumption under controlled licences.
        Reuters
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        The front yards are littered with wrecked trucks, ice-frozen shacks, antlers, polar bear skins and bowhead bones.
        BBC
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        The bowhead whale has the largest mouth of any animal, but it does not use it to bite.
        BBC
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        Then, one day he came upon the carcass of an immense bowhead whale far north on the Alaskan shore.
        The Blue Envelope
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        Whalebone is chiefly obtained from the bowhead, or Greenland, whale, the Biscay whale, and the Antarctic, or southern, whale.
        The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section T, U, V, ...
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        However, as safe as it was to stalk the bowhead, it was just as dangerous to sail the Chukchi Sea.
        Idiot america: how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the ...
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        It is easy to demonise from afar, but the Alaskan bowhead hunt is a long way from large-scale commercial whaling.
        BBC
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        Until now it's the bowhead whale you've hunted, and it won't risk going past the warm waters of the equator.
        Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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