doegling
doegling noun: a northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.
Noun
doegling (plural doeglings)
- A northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.
- This acid is, moreover, not combined with oxide of lipyl in the Doegling train-oil, (at least it yields no glycerine on saponification,) but probably with doeglic oxide, C₂₄H₂₅O, a body similar to the ether-like haloid bases, whose existence and composition Scharling, however, only infers from the...1851, Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, Physiological Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 116
- Doegling Train Oil. From the doegling (the Balœna rostrata of Chemnitz, Hyperodon of later zoologists), a kind of dolphin.1866, Leopold Gmelin, Hand-Book of Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 180
Forms of doegling
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Origin of doegling
From a typographical variant of Danish døgling, from Faroese døglingur, which now refers to the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus).
Questions about doegling
- What does doegling mean?
- Doegling means a northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.
- What part of speech is doegling?
- Doegling is a noun.
- What is the plural of doegling?
- The plural of doegling is doeglings.
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