baiji
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白鱀豚/白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).
Noun
editbaiji (plural baijis or baiji)
- A freshwater dolphin (†Lipotes vexillifer), only found in the Yangtze River. Declared functionally extinct in 2006.
- 2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- In 2006, he made a research trip to China to look for the baiji, also known as the Yangtze River dolphin. He and his colleagues searched the legendary river’s entire 1,700-kilometer main channel, twice. They counted nearly 20,000 large shipping vessels and more than a thousand fishing boats, but no river dolphins. At the end of their quest, they declared that the species was likely extinct, a conclusion now widely supported. For all the terrible harm that humans have done to cetaceans, drastically reducing their abundance and range, the baiji was the first of them that we ever completely extinguished. It happened in the 21st century.
Synonyms
edit- Chinese river dolphin, Chinese white dolphin, whitefin dolphin, Yangtze dolphin, Yangtze River dolphin
Translations
editfreshwater dolphin
Etymology 2
editNoun
editbaiji (uncountable)
- Alternative form of bai ji
Finnish
editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白鱀豚/白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbaiji
- (dated) Synonym of kiinanjokidelfiini.
Declension
editInflection of baiji (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | baiji | baijit | |
genitive | baijin | baijien | |
partitive | baijia | baijeja | |
illative | baijiin | baijeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | baiji | baijit | |
accusative | nom. | baiji | baijit |
gen. | baijin | ||
genitive | baijin | baijien | |
partitive | baijia | baijeja | |
inessive | baijissa | baijeissa | |
elative | baijista | baijeista | |
illative | baijiin | baijeihin | |
adessive | baijilla | baijeilla | |
ablative | baijilta | baijeilta | |
allative | baijille | baijeille | |
essive | baijina | baijeina | |
translative | baijiksi | baijeiksi | |
abessive | baijitta | baijeitta | |
instructive | — | baijein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 白鱀豚/白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbaiji m (plural baijis)
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