Whalelore
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Whalelore is a noun meaning (puristic) The knowledge, study, or science of whales.
Meaning
(puristic) The knowledge, study, or science of whales.
Example Sentences
But his pretense to whalelore didn't even have an aficionado's sincerity. Grey didn't like him.
A whale of a whale adventure on one of the few sailing vessels still occasionally in use. The author has packed standard ingredients into this story, including a fiendish captain, detailed information on whalelore and modern whaling methods.
Member of the Danish Rigsdag, the king's sheriff in Faroe, a man of the simplest manners and most varied knowledge and intelligence, great in whalelore and fowllore, strong in deep- sea fishing, a great gatherer of strange over-sea waifs, […]
The project itself, in short, generates the need for figuration, itself compactly figured in the Swiss Army knife...in the amount of whalelore that might be considered, but there turns out to be no inherent limit to the number of cognitive strategies for knowledge about whalelore that might be tested.
Word Forms
- whale-lore
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ocean-lore, sealore, delphinology, wordlore, lovelore, birdlore.
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