TOOTHED WHALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toothed whale mean? 

• TOOTHED WHALE (noun)
  The noun TOOTHED WHALE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TOOTHED WHALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOOTHED WHALE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

Loke's hearing abilities are on a par with the hearing of the toothed whale and the seal.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)