Nordcaper

Mural showing a whaler and Nordcaper

Meaning

Noun

A type of baleen whale from the North Atlantic (Balaena mysticetus or Balaena biscayensis (species)).

Origin

Borrowing from Dutch, a reference to the North Cape in Finnmark, Norway, where most of these whales were found by Dutch and Norwegian whalers.

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