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Deutsche Ausschauhalten Synonyme

Englische spyhopping; headrise Synonyme

Ausschauhalten Definition

Right whale
() The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Right whale
() Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii)
Sperm whale
() A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet. It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
Whale
(n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

spyhopping; headrise (of a whale) Bedeutung

whale shark
Rhincodon typus
large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide, resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton
whale louse amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans
whale any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
baleen whale
whalebone whale
whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
right whale large Arctic whalebone whale, allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil
bowhead
bowhead whale
Greenland whale
Balaena mysticetus
large-mouthed Arctic whale
blue whale
sulfur bottom
Balaenoptera musculus
largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
finback
finback whale
fin whale
common rorqual
Balaenoptera physalus
large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific
sei whale
Balaenoptera borealis
similar to but smaller than the finback whale
lesser rorqual
piked whale
minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific
humpback
humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
grey whale
gray whale
devilfish Eschrichtius gibbosus
Eschrichtius robustus
medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
toothed whale any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.
sperm whale
cachalot
black whale Physeter catodon
large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil, also a source of ambergris
pygmy sperm whale
Kogia breviceps
small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America
dwarf sperm whale
Kogia simus
very small (to feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific
beaked whale any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
bottle-nosed whale
bottlenose whale
bottlenose Hyperoodon ampullatus
northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
killer whale
killer
orca
grampus sea wolf
Orcinus orca
predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin, common in cold seas
pilot whale
black whale common blackfish
blackfish Globicephala melaena
small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
white whale
beluga Delphinapterus leucas
small northern whale that is white when adult
whale sucker
whalesucker
Remilegia australis
large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
giant hulk
heavyweight whale
a very large person, impressive in size or qualities
whale oil
train oil
a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber, formerly used as an illuminant
whale hunt for whales
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