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Definition of Megaptera
1. Noun. Humpback whales.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Balaenopteridae, Family Balaenopteridae
Member holonyms: Humpback, Humpback Whale, Megaptera Novaeangliae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaptera
Literary usage of Megaptera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"In the latter the total length of the bone is 10| inches, in megaptera 9$, but
the relative length of the anterior and posterior portions is very different; ..."
2. The Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh by William Turner (1912)
"megaptera. (M.) megaptera, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, p. 16, 1846. ...
Baleen plates, two, of a megaptera towed into Wick Bay, March 1871. ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1885)
"ON FINGER MUSCLES IN megaptera LONGIMANA, AND IN OTHER WHALES. By JOHN STRUTHERS,
MD, Professor of Anatomy, Aberdeen University, Scotland. ..."
4. A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera by Peter. Carmeron (1893)
"4 (megaptera, renum); PI . XV, fig. 7 (megaptera). Cynips megaptera, Pz., FG,
Heft 79, 7. ... megaptera, Marshall, EMM, iv, 272; Mayr, ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"This group is equivalent to the genus megaptera of EC vol. i. col. ... megaptera.
Type, M. longimana.—Blade-bone without any coracoid process ; the body of ..."
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