sulphur-bottom

[ suhl-fer-bot-uhm ]

noun

1. blue whale.

sulphur-bottom

noun

1. another name for blue whale

Word History and Origins

Origin of sulphur-bottom¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

In a dark hall of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, beneath the mottled, 76-ft. belly of a sulphur-bottom whale, the Museum had assembled and spotlighted some 200 masks from all over the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sulphur-bottom whale is the largest, but it is never harpooned, as it is too dangerous, and will always run all the line out of the tubs before it stops sounding.

From Project Gutenberg

Grenfell helped take to pieces a "sulphur-bottom" whale ninety-five feet long, supposed to weigh nearly 300,000 pounds.

From Project Gutenberg

But the Little-piked, or rostrata, is found inshore along the north and east, the Bottle-nose on the north, the Humpback on the east and south; and the Finback and Sulphur-bottom are common and widely distributed, especially on the east.

From Project Gutenberg

The sulphur-bottom, river St. Lawrence, ninety foot long; they are but seldom killed, as being extremely swift.

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