- qwunus
- qʷənəs
- N
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whale
Details
- Parse string
- √qwunus
- qwunus
- qʷənəs
- Noun
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whale
Details
- Ethnobiological notes
- The whales referred to by this term include gray whales and a smaller type of whale that comes to the inside waters, most likely the small minke whale. This term cannot be used to refer to killer whales.
- Binomial name
- [?Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg) (gray whale) and ?Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede (minke whale)]