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beluga

noun
🔊/bəˈluːɡə/
🔊/bəˈluːɡə/
(plural beluga, belugas)
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  1. [countable] a type of small whale白鲸
  2. [countable] a type of large fish that lives in rivers and lakes in eastern Europe欧洲鳇，欧鳇（大型鲟鱼）Topics Fish and shellfishc2
  3. (also beluga caviar)
     [uncountable] a type of caviar (= fish eggs), from a beluga 鲟鱼鱼子酱
    4. Word Originlate 16th cent. (in senses (2) and (3)): from Russian belukha (sense (1)), beluga (senses (2) and (3)), both from belyĭ ‘white’.