Rorqual is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 61 anagrams from letters in rorqual (aloqrru).
1820-30; French Norwegian rørkval, Old Norse reytharhvalr, equivalent to reyth(a)r rorqual (akin to rauthr red1) + hvalr whale
The rorqual feeds partly upon the small creatures which it captures by means of its whalebone strainer, and partly upon fishes.
What is temporary in the rorqual appears to be permanent in the Sotalia.
It has, however, the general outline of a rorqual, with a relatively small head.
Another visitor, the rorqual, is not welcomed by the fishermen.
rorqual, ror′kwal, n. a genus of whales of the largest size.
He came out to meet me upon the back of a mighty 'rorqual,' and a body-guard of four hundred picked narwhals swam before him.
That of the extinct Halitherium recalls the pelvis of the rorqual.
The only other rorqual to do so—the blue whale—raises the flukes slightly or not at all.
Captain Scoresby indeed mentions a rorqual no less than 120 feet in length, but this is probably too great an estimate.