balaenoptera physalus

What does balaenoptera physalus mean?

balaenoptera physalus means "large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific".

What is another word for balaenoptera physalus?

Close synonyms include finback, finback whale, fin whale, common rorqual. 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 physalus a common word?

balaenoptera physalus 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for balaenoptera physalus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.