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Definition of Finbacks
1. finback [n] - See also: finback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finbacks
Literary usage of Finbacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"In the North Atlantic there are three species of finbacks, one species of ...
Though numerous species of finbacks and humpbacks have been described from ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"A considerable number of common finbacks and humpbacks have been killed in
Massachusetts Bay and the Gulf of Maine by means of explosive bombs attached to a ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"On coming up with them they were found to be finbacks. ... On the northern coast
the finbacks, in many instances, have a much larger fin than those in ..."
4. Labrador: A Sketch of Its Peoples, Its Industries and Its Natural History by Winfrid Alden Stearns (1884)
"They were probably of the species called finbacks, since the "spout" corresponded
to this class of whales more closely, being a single stream sent upwards ..."
5. A Year with a Whaler by Walter Noble Burns (1913)
"A school of finbacks was out ahead moving in leisurely fashion toward the brig.
There were about twenty of them and the sea was dotted with their fountains. ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"Up to the time of my visit the whaling steamer Puma, operating at Chaleur Bay
and at Placentia Bay, had taken in 1903 107 Sulphur-bottoms, 66 finbacks, ..."
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