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Hwæl

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Hwæles biliþ mid bodige (būton tægl) mid his hrife in þǣre lyfte ofer þǣm wætere.
Hoferbæc hƿæl
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Humpback whale [1]
Cræftlicu endebyrdung
Rīce: Animalia
Stefn: Chordata
Flocc: Mammalia
Undergefērscipe: Eutheria
Hād: Cetacea

Hƿæl is folclic nama missenlica ƿætersycedēora þæs hādes Cetacea.[2] Man oft þone ƿordcƿide hƿæl brȳcþ for eall cetaceans, ac mǣste ne beinnaþ hē delfinas and meresƿīnas, þe ēac cetaceans sind,[3] ac beinned mid þǣm underhāde Odontoceti sind (hƿalas mid tōðum). Þes underhād ēac beinnaþ þone sǣd hƿæl, cƿelloþ hƿæl, pilot hƿæl, and beluga hƿæl. Se underhād Mysticeti (beardhƿalas) beinnaþ þone blæƿen hƿæl, þone hoferbæc hƿæl, þone bogahēafod hƿæl and þone minke hƿæl. Eall Cetacea habbaþ earmas hƿeorfed sƿā finnas, tægl mid sīdeƿegiscum flūcum, and nōsþyrel on his hēafde.

  1. Mead, James G. and Robert L. Brownell, Jr (16 Blōtmōnþe, 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World (Syċedēor þǣre Ƿorulde), Þridde ādiht, Johns Hopkins University Press, 723–743. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. (2007) in Brown, Lesley: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Sixth, Oxford: Oxford University press, 3611. 
  3. Archive copy. Writen fram the original on 2010-06-13. Begieten on 2013-07-25.