Noun
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any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.
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whale any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
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odontoceti,
suborder odontoceti toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales
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cachalot,
physeter catodon,
sperm whale,
black whale large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
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kogia breviceps,
pygmy sperm whale small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America
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dwarf sperm whale,
kogia simus very small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific
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beaked whale any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
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