bottle-nosed whale

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bottle-nosed whale - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sperm whale \Sperm" whale`\ (Zool.)
     A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having
     a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
     In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
     large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This
     whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
     It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called
     also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Pygmy sperm whale (Zool.), a small whale (Kogia  breviceps
        ), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
        seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called
        also snub-nosed cachalot.
  
     Sperm-whale porpoise (Zool.), a toothed cetacean
        (Hyperoodon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic
        and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about
        twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
        thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
        [1913 Webster]

  Bottlehead \Bot"tle*head`\, n. (Zool.)
     A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also
     bottle-nosed whale.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot
           whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more
           species of Hypero["o]don (Hypero["o]don bidens,
           etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1.
           [1913 Webster]

bottle-nosed whale - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bottle-nosed whale
      n 1: northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
           [syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale,
           bottlenose, Hyperoodon ampullatus]