finback whale

What does finback whale mean?

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

What is another word for finback whale?

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

finback whale 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 finback whale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.