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Meanings of common rorqual in English
Portuguese
baleia-comum 
Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific.
Synonyms
Examples for "finback"
Examples for "finback"
1
W'en I uz young 'n foolish, a finback range 'longside me one day, off de Seychelles.
2
For a long time our finback kept station with the boat, as if it were interested in us.
3
Gray finback whales flounder in schools.
4
From which lucid narration I gathered that the finback had himself to thank for his immunity from pursuit.
5
It is not very likely, but it is possible that this finback may carry us out to some distance.
1
Gray finback whales flounder in schools.
2
'Twas a finback whale, M. Radisson explained; and he protested against the impudence of scratching its back on our keel.
1
A 12 metre fin whale is stuck against a pier wall in west Cork.
2
This is only the fourth fin whale to wash ashore in this area since 2010.
3
A 20-metre fin whale which became stranded on a beach in Achill Island has died.
4
It might be a hybrid: perhaps the offspring of a blue whale and a fin whale.
5
This particular fin whale's last hours began early yesterday morning, when it stranded on Stinson Beach sometime after midnight.