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CACHALOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cachalot mean?
• CACHALOT (noun)
The noun CACHALOT has 1 sense:
1. large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
Familiarity information: CACHALOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
black whale; cachalot; Physeter catodon; sperm whale
Hypernyms ("cachalot" is a kind of...):
toothed whale (any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.)
Holonyms ("cachalot" is a member of...):
genus Physeter; Physeter (type genus of the Physeteridae)
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