English
Noun
minke whale (plural minke whales)
- either of two baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis found in coastal waters
Synonyms
- minke
- piked whale
- lesser rorqual
Translations
Balaenoptera acutorostrata or Balaenoptera bonaerensis
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小鬚鯨, 小须鲸 (xiǎoxūjīng)
- Danish: vågehval c
- Faroese: sildreki m
- Finnish: lahtivalas (fi)
- French: baleine de minke f, petit rorqual (fr) m
- German: Zwergwal m
- Greek: ρυγχοφάλαινα f (rynchofálaina)
- Greenlandic: tikaagullik
- Icelandic: hrefna (is) f, hrafnreyður (is) f
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- Japanese: ミンククジラ (minku kujira)
- Maori: pakake
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vågehval m
- Nynorsk: vågekval m
- Portuguese: baleia-anã f
- Russian: ма́лый полоса́тик m (mályj polosátik), ма́лый полоса́тик Ми́нке m (mályj polosátik Mínke)
- Spanish: ballena enana f, ballenoto m, rorqual aliblanco m
- Swedish: vikval c
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