NARWHAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does narwhal mean? 

• NARWHAL (noun)
  The noun NARWHAL has 1 sense:

1. small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk

  Familiarity information: NARWHAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NARWHAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Monodon monoceros; narwal; narwhal; narwhale

Hypernyms ("narwhal" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("narwhal" is a member of...):

genus Monodon; Monodon (type genus of the Monodontidae)

 Context examples 

How I had chafed and longed for the wonders of town, and yet, now that I had seen more than my wildest dreams had ever deemed possible, my eyes had rested upon nothing which was so sweet and so restful as our own little sitting-room, with its terra-cotta-coloured walls, and those trifles which are so insignificant in themselves, and yet so rich in memories—the blow-fish from the Moluccas, the narwhal’s horn from the Arctic, and the picture of the Ca Ira, with Lord Hotham in chase!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, well, he added, looking round at the walls of the room, here are all my old curios, the same as ever: the narwhal’s horn from the Arctic, and the blowfish from the Moluccas, and the paddles from Fiji, and the picture of the Ca Ira with Lord Hotham in chase.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)