TOOTHED WHALE

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Meaning:

Any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("toothed whale" is a kind of...):

whale (any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "toothed whale"):

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)

Holonyms ("toothed whale" is a member of...):

Odontoceti; suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales)