toothed whale
Noun
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Any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. (synset 102069360)
is a type of: whale - any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the headsubtypes:
- black whale, cachalot, physeter catodon, sperm whale - large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
- kogia breviceps, pygmy sperm whale - small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America
- dwarf sperm whale, kogia simus - very small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific
- beaked whale - any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
- dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
belongs to: odontoceti, suborder odontoceti - toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales
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