Word Meanings - SPERMWHALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Pygmy sperm whale (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a toothed cetacean (Hyperoödon 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.

• Cavity
  Hollowness.
• Porpoise
  Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but
• Toothbill
  A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three
• Fillibustered
  of Filibuster
• Smalls
  See Small, n., 2, 3.
• Twentyfold
  Twenty times as many.
• Spermatium
  One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.
• Warmer
  One who, or that which, warms.
• Foundries
  of Foundry
• Spermatorrhea
  Alt. of Spermatorrhoea
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• Adulterate
  To defile by adultery.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Spermophile
  Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; a gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.
• SIDESLIP
  See Skid, below.
• Americanizing
  of Americanize
• Large-hearted
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
• Thereafter
  After that; afterward.
• THICKWINDED
  Affected with thick wind.

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