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cachalote

cachalote is the alternative form of cachalot.

cachalote is the alternative form of cacholote.

Meaning of cachalot

Noun

cachalot (plural cachalots)

  1. The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus.
    • A flexible rib cage facilitates the collapse of the lungs of a diving cachalot (a synonym derived from an old French word for tooth), so reducing the nitrogen uptake which is responsible for decompression sickness in diving humans, while high levels of haemoglobin in the blood and myoglobin in the...2011 September 22, Richard Shelton, “Sheep, pig, whale”, in Times Literary Supplement

Meaning of cacholote

Noun

cacholote (plural cacholotes)

  1. Any of several species of passerine birds in the genus Pseudoseisura, found in South America.

Forms of cachalote

pluralcachalotes

Questions about cachalote

What is cachalote the alternative form of?
Cachalote is the alternative form of cachalot.

Words near cachalote in the dictionary

  1. cachacas
  2. cachaemia
  3. cachaemias
  4. cachaemic
  5. cachalot
  6. cachalote
  7. cachalotes
  8. cachalots
  9. Cachan
  10. Cachapoal
  11. Cachar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cachalote (page history and authors); cachalot (page history and authors); cacholote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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