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# bowhead

noun (a bowhead, bowheads; bowhead whale)

«bowhead» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A large dark Arctic whale with a huge curved mouth and a very thick layer of blubber; it has no teeth and filters food with baleen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowhead/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science lessons the bowhead whale is famous as perhaps the longest-living mammal: some have lived over 200 years. It lives in icy Arctic seas and can break ice with its head. Inuit communities hunt a small number of them in a controlled way. Phrases: «bowhead whale».

### Examples

- The bowhead whale can live for more than 200 years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowhead/#x1)
- A bowhead breaks through thin ice to breathe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowhead/#x2)
- Bowheads have baleen instead of teeth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowhead/#x3)
- Its blubber is thicker than your arm is long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowhead/#x4)
- Bowhead whales live in the cold Arctic Ocean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowhead/#x5)
- The bowhead got its name from its curved, bow-shaped head. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowhead/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Usually «bowhead whale». «Bow» here rhymes with «go» (like a bow for arrows), not with «cow».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bowhead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowhead/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bowhead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bowhead.html) on Mova free.