"Nordcaper" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Borrowing from Dutch, a reference to the North Cape in Finnmark, Norway, where most of these whales were found by Dutch and Norwegian whalers.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Nordcapers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nordcaper",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "north-caper",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Nordcaper (plural Nordcapers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1880, William Henry Davenport Adams, Recent Polar Voyages:",
          "text": "Besides the “Nordcapers,” the voyagers one day fell in with another species of dolphin, three or four of which gambolled under the Germania's bows.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Fishery Board for Scotland, Fishery Board for Scotland Scientific Investigations, page 8:",
          "text": "Taking all our 69 Nordcapers together, the average girth, according to the measurements given, is just about 63 per cent. of the length of the fish ; that is to say, a whale of average size, say 474 feet long, would have a girth of 30 feet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, Ragnar Spärck, Søren Ludvig Tuxen, The Zoology of the Faroes: Vermes, Tardigrada:",
          "text": "It may be mentioned that thus it was evidently not merely by chance that a Nordcaper was caught near the Faroes the same year.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Dale R. Calder, Willem Vervoort, Some Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in the North Atlantic Ocean, page 356:",
          "text": "he repeated that he received the material from a whaler who had collected it from a ”Nordcaper” between Iceland and Newfoundland.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of baleen whale from the North Atlantic (Balaena mysticetus or Balaena biscayensis)."
      ],
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          "baleen whale",
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        ],
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          "North Atlantic",
          "North Atlantic"
        ],
        [
          "Balaena mysticetus",
          "Balaena mysticetus#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Nordcaper"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Borrowing from Dutch, a reference to the North Cape in Finnmark, Norway, where most of these whales were found by Dutch and Norwegian whalers.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Nordcapers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nordcaper",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "north-caper",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1880, William Henry Davenport Adams, Recent Polar Voyages:",
          "text": "Besides the “Nordcapers,” the voyagers one day fell in with another species of dolphin, three or four of which gambolled under the Germania's bows.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Fishery Board for Scotland, Fishery Board for Scotland Scientific Investigations, page 8:",
          "text": "Taking all our 69 Nordcapers together, the average girth, according to the measurements given, is just about 63 per cent. of the length of the fish ; that is to say, a whale of average size, say 474 feet long, would have a girth of 30 feet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, Ragnar Spärck, Søren Ludvig Tuxen, The Zoology of the Faroes: Vermes, Tardigrada:",
          "text": "It may be mentioned that thus it was evidently not merely by chance that a Nordcaper was caught near the Faroes the same year.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Dale R. Calder, Willem Vervoort, Some Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in the North Atlantic Ocean, page 356:",
          "text": "he repeated that he received the material from a whaler who had collected it from a ”Nordcaper” between Iceland and Newfoundland.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of baleen whale from the North Atlantic (Balaena mysticetus or Balaena biscayensis)."
      ],
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        ],
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          "North Atlantic"
        ],
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          "Balaena mysticetus",
          "Balaena mysticetus#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Nordcaper"
}