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Definition of Piked whale
1. Noun. Small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific.
Generic synonyms: Razorback, Rorqual
Group relationships: Balaenoptera, Genus Balaenoptera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piked Whale
Literary usage of Piked whale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"... or their direction is according to the shape of the cavity, as the stomachs
of snakes and of many fish, the livers of sharks, &c. OP THE piked whale ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"They are placed near together in the piked whale, not being a quarter of an inch
asunder, where at the greatest distance, yet differing in this respect in ..."
3. Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"In 1870 I made a cast of a whale's head now in my museum. It was the piked whale,
... piked whale ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"In the piked whale, the length from the stomach to the caecum is 28,' yards, ...
In the porpoise, grampus, and piked whale, there are five ; in the bottle- ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"They are placed near together in the piked whale, not being a quarter of an inch
asunder, where at the greatest distance, yet differing in this respect in ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Little piked whale, or Lesser Pinner smallest of the ... The little piked whale
feeds upon fish. It is found with the other species ol ..."
7. The Philadelphia Medical Museum by John Redman Coxe (1808)
"In the piked whale the rugs e are longitudinal and deep, but in fome places ...
and as the piked whale has whalebone teeth, the great whalebone whale . will ..."
8. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1808)
"In the porpoise, grampus, and large bottle-nose whale this structure resembles
that which is above described. In the piked whale the ..."
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