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Type genus of the Balaenidae Greenland whales
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Balaena \Balaena\ n. type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales. Syn: genus Balaena.
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Balaena is a genus of cetacean (whale) in the family Balaenidae . Balaena is considered a monotypic genus, as it has only a single extant species, the bowhead whale ( B . mysticetus ). It was first described in 1758 by Linnaeus , who at the time considered ...
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Amongst other whalers may be mentioned the Balaena, the Diana, the Active, and the Polar Star of Dundee.
Unknown to Pollard, only a few weeks earlier, on September 29, the Nantucket whaleships Equator and Balaena stopped at the Hawaiian island of Oahu for the first time.
Pliny the philosopher says, in the third chapter of his ninth book, that in the Indian Sea, the fish called Balaena or Whirlpool, is so long and broad, as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground.