bowhead
pronunciation
How to pronounce bowhead in British English:
UK ['bəʊhed]
How to pronounce bowhead in American English:
US ['boʊhed]
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- Noun:
- large-mouthed arctic whale
Word Origin
Example
- 1. One bowhead whale is reported to have been 130 years old when it died .
- 2. If they continue to mate with bowhead whales , goodbye north pacific rights .
- 3. The community was the first on the coast to catch a whale this autumn as the bowhead whale 's migration route south passes here first
- 4. Shell 's research is focused on species that the eskimos hunt , including bowhead whale .
- 5. For thousands of years the native people living above the arctic circle in alaska have depended on hunting bowhead whales and other mammals for their subsistence .