BALAENOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Balaenoptera mean? 

• BALAENOPTERA (noun)
  The noun BALAENOPTERA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Balaenopteridae

  Familiarity information: BALAENOPTERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALAENOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Balaenopteridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Balaenoptera; genus Balaenoptera

Hypernyms ("Balaenoptera" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Balaenoptera"):

Balaenoptera musculus; blue whale; sulfur bottom (largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere)

Balaenoptera physalus; common rorqual; fin whale; finback; finback whale (large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific)

Balaenoptera borealis; sei whale (similar to but smaller than the finback whale)

Balaenoptera acutorostrata; lesser rorqual; minke whale; piked whale (small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific)

Holonyms ("Balaenoptera" is a member of...):

Balaenopteridae; family Balaenopteridae (rorquals; blue whales)