minke whale
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6.2
- noun
- /ˈmɪŋk weɪl/
- Specialized
:
ballena minke
- However, because of strong evidence of a healthy minke whale stock in the northeast Atlantic, the government decided in 1992 to resume sustainable minke whaling in the northeast Atlantic as of 1993.
- minke whale stock
- northeast Atlantic minke whale
- Atlantic minke whale
Examples
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In the North Atlantic, there are three stocks of minke whales: the northeast Atlantic stock, the central Atlantic stock, and the west Greenland Atlantic stock.
Academic text (1994) -
However, because of the uncertainty concerning the northeast Atlantic minke whale stock and pressure from the U.S. government and environmental groups, Norway introduced a temporary ban on all whaling in 1987.
Academic text (1994) -
This second research program required, among other things, an annual sample of 100 minke whales (IWC n.d.).
Academic text (2002) -
On one hand, the organization attacks Norwegian minke whale hunting by claiming that there is no evidence that the minke whale stock is recovering.
Academic text (1994) -
Sixty percent of the U.S. respondents believed there were fewer than 10,000 minke whales left in the world, whereas, in fact, there are approximately 1 million.
Academic text (1994) -
But IWC still refused to implement the revised management procedure or to set quotas on catches of minke whales.
Academic text (1994) -
The Responsive Management survey (1997) reported that 71 percent of Americans would favor a sustainable hunt of abundant minke whales for cultural and nutritional purposes.
Academic text (2002) -
The northeast Atlantic minke whale stock was estimated at approximately 20,000 animals, and in 1985, the minke whale was placed on the IWC protected species list.
Academic text (1994) -
The Norwegians openly conduct commercial whaling and now take more minke whales per year than do the Japanese (quotas for the year 2000 were announced to be 655 for Norway and 440 for the Japanese).
Academic text (2002) -
In the chilly waters of the North Atlantic, I spotted a minke whale swimming gracefully near the shore.
Synonyms
A small whale like a minke whale that lives near coasts
A small whale that swims near coasts and eats small sea animals using filter plates
A small whale that lives near coasts, like the minke whale
How Big
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
minke + whale
The noun 'whale' makes the phrase compositionally clear at the class level — a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a kind of whale. However, 'minke' is an opaque species name (not a descriptive adjective) so the specific meaning and features (small baleen species) are not predictable from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Minke whale comes from one popular story that a Norwegian whaler named Meincke, often written as Minke, first pointed out this smaller kind of whale. Because people began using his name for the animal, minke whale today means 'a smaller species of whale'.