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GENUS KOGIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Kogia mean?
• GENUS KOGIA (noun)
The noun GENUS KOGIA has 1 sense:
1. pygmy sperm whales
Familiarity information: GENUS KOGIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pygmy sperm whales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Kogia; Kogia
Hypernyms ("genus Kogia" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "genus Kogia"):
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)
Holonyms ("genus Kogia" is a member of...):
family Physeteridae; Physeteridae (sperm whales)
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