NOUN
- large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific
How To Use finback whale In A Sentence
- Apparently nobody noticed that they were pushing around this dead 60 foot finback whale for possibly up to two days.
- The more common marine mammals that can be observed from the park, albeit with a diminishing frequency in recent years include pilot whale Globicephala melaena, minke whale Balaenoptera autorostrata, finback whale B. physalus (V) and harbour seals Phoca vitulina. Gros Morne National Park, Canada
- In 1871, Dr. Thomas Dwight, Jr. purchased a large finback whale and had the carcass towed to Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor, where the bones were carefully cleaned.