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Wiktionary英語版
出典：Wiktionary
right whale
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/11/14 21:47 UTC 版)
語源
From right + whale, but the sense of right in the name is unknown. The commonly given etymology based on these whales being for various reasons the "right" whales to hunt (e.g. easy to hunt and docile) is questionable but highly plausible and therefore not necessarily a folk etymology, as Eric Jay Dolin writes in 2007 in his history of American whaling: The earliest references to the right whale offer no indication why it was called that, and some who have studied the issue point out that the word "right" in this context might just as likely be intended "to connote 'true' or 'proper,' meaning typical of the group." The scientific name of the whale's genus is Eubalaena, which means "good or true whales".
名詞
right whale (plural right whales)
- Any baleen whale of the genus Eubalaena. [from 18th c.]
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1996, Richard Ellis, Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss, page 305:
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It is said (in what may be an apocryphal story) that around 1712, a Nantucket captain named Christopher Hussey was blown offshore while hunting right whales, and came upon a school of large, bluff-headed whales with forward-angled spouts.
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2018 June 20, Chelsea Murray, The Guardian:
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The previous night, they’d received a call from the federal Department of Oceans and Fisheries (DFO): a right whale was tangled up in crab trap lines near their location.
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派生語
- Biscayan right whale
- Greenland right whale
- North Pacific right whale
- pygmy right whale
- right whale dolphin
Further reading
right whale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Eubalaena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Balaenidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
ウィキペディア英語版
出典：Wikipedia
Right whale
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/19 05:51 UTC 版)
英語による解説
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Right whales are three species of large baleen whales consisting of two genera in the family Balaenidae of order Cetacea. Their bodies are very dark gray or black and rotund.
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