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BEAKED WHALE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beaked whale mean?
• BEAKED WHALE (noun)
The noun BEAKED WHALE has 1 sense:
1. any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
Familiarity information: BEAKED WHALE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("beaked whale" is a kind of...):
toothed whale (any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beaked whale"):
bottle-nosed whale; bottlenose; bottlenose whale; Hyperoodon ampullatus (northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead)
Holonyms ("beaked whale" is a member of...):
family Hyperodontidae; family Ziphiidae; Hyperodontidae; Ziphiidae (beaked whales; in some especially former classifications included in the family Physeteridae)
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