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Перевод: blubber

[прилагательное]
выпячивающийся; толстый;
[существительное]
ворвань ; медуза ; рев ; плач ;
[глагол]
громко плакать; плакать; реветь; рыдать

Тезаурус:

1. Small cetaceans are additionally vulnerable because their bodies contain large volumes of fat and blubber.
2. The blubber was probably considered to be a valuable dietary supplement to help counter the effects of the cold weather.
3. Large quantities of unused frozen meat and blubber have been found on rubbish dumps after recent drives.
4. PCB residues in the blubber of the California bottlenose dolphin also exceeded previously published concentrations for cetaceans from all other parts of the world, except perhaps the Mediterranean coast of France, which have been reported to have a maximum concentration of over 2500 ppm.
5. Because they cannot generally be metabolised or excreted, organochlorines tend to accumulate gradually in the blubber, which in adult belugas accounts for 35 per cent of the body weight.
6. Body heat is retained by a layer of blubber under the skin.
7. "With repeated strokes they hack into the blubber and flesh of the thrashing animals with 15cm knives, attempting to cut through the carotid arteries alongside the spine.
8. A thick layer of blubber beneath the skin helps insulate cetaceans against temperatures that would quickly kill a human.
9. Not surprisingly, mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific, including Japan.
10. Pierre Beland and Daniel Martineau were members of a research team which showed that the concept of blubber as an inert tissue was incorrect - the ratios of contaminants in samples from over 70 autopsied belugas has shown that toxins are continually exchanged between various tissues.
11. Conventional scientific wisdom has held that whales are relatively immune from the effects of toxic chemicals, because such contaminants were thought to be safely stored in the blubber, a tissue considered to be fairly inert.
12. The all-prevailing, extended blubber of Passion has become incapable of expressing sickness.
13. The blubber which keeps them warm in the water acts as an overly-effective insulator on land, and they can literally cook in their own fat if they are not kept cool.