Sibbald
(ˈsɪbəld)
The name of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722), Scottish naturalist, used in the possessive to designate the blue whale, Balænoptera musculus.
| 1897 R. Lydekker Conc. Knowledge Nat. Hist. 173 The largest..of all whales, is the blue, or Sibbald's rorqual.., commonly known to the American whalers by the name of ‘sulphur-bottom’. 1937 [see blue whale s.v. blue a. 12 a]. 1972 Oxf. Bk. Vertebrates 190/1 Sibbald's Rorqual..has a world-wide distribution and migrates between high and low latitudes. |