Definition of toothed whale Toothed whale
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What does toothed whale mean?
WordNet
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| 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 | ||
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Wiktionary 
- toothed whale (Noun)
A whale of the Odontoceti suborder of the cetaceans, including sperm whale s, beaked whale s, dolphins, and others.
