toothed whale

Any of various cetaceans of the suborder Odontoceti, having numerous teeth and a single blowhole, and including the dolphins, the porpoises, and the sperm whale. Also called odontocete.

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toothed whale

(Animals) any whale belonging to the cetacean suborder Odontoceti, having a single blowhole and numerous simple teeth and feeding on fish, smaller mammals, molluscs, etc: includes dolphins and porpoises. Compare whalebone whale

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toothed′ whale′

any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.

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Noun

toothed whale - any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.

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

Odontoceti, suborder Odontoceti - toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales

cachalot, Physeter catodon, sperm whale, black 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

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