balaenoptera acutorostrata

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   small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific

   Synonymslesser rorqualpiked whaleminke whale

   Broaderrorqual

   Part ofBalaenoptera

Questions about balaenoptera acutorostrata

What does balaenoptera acutorostrata mean?

balaenoptera acutorostrata means "small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific".

What is another word for balaenoptera acutorostrata?

Close synonyms include lesser rorqual, piked whale, minke whale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balaenoptera acutorostrata a common word?

balaenoptera acutorostrata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.