WordNet
lesser rorqual
n. small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific [syn: piked whale, minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata]
Usage examples of "lesser rorqual".
During the past year, over a hundred lives had been saved when cetaceans-chiefly the smaller dolphins but in one documented case, a lesser rorqual whale-towed shipwrecked humans to safety.