whalefish

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A whale. dated
    — In Baffin's Bay where the whale-fish blow, The fate of Franklin no man may know
  2. Any fish of the order Cetomimiformes of deepwater ray-finned fish.

词形变化

whalefishes plural whalefish plural

词源

From whale + fish. Compare West Frisian walfisk, Dutch walvis (“whale”), German Low German Waalfisch, German Walfisch (“whale”), Danish hvalfisk (“whale”), Icelandic hvalfiskur.
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