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n. - Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat.

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  • "What's the difference between a 'finback' and a 'humpback,' Hank?" asked the boy, after the canvas had been stowed, the vessel under auxiliary steam having speed enough...
  • A kind of finback, an 'is the largest animal livin'.
  • He now frequently demanded the half of a whale instead of a tenth, or took, without asking, the whole of a grampus or finback.
  • Inspired by Pluvialis' post on the finback whale skeleton exhibited at Cambridge, I took this picture of a blue whale mounted in front of the Santa Barbara Museum of...
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