rorqual

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Rorqual whales capture much of their food by an extraordinary procedure known as lunge feeding.

From Nature • May 23, 2012

Captain Scoresby indeed mentions a Rorqual no less than 120 feet in length, but this is probably too great an estimate.

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

In this specimen they were about 4 inches in length, but of as many feet in the large Rorqual.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various

Another visitor, the Rorqual, is not welcomed by the fishermen.

From Within the Deep Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII. by Smith, R. Cadwallader

Rorqual, ror′kwal, n. a genus of whales of the largest size.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various