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cacholot

cacholot is the archaic form of cachalot.

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

Forms of cacholot

pluralcacholots

Questions about cacholot

What is cacholot the archaic form of?
Cacholot is the archaic form of cachalot.

Words near cacholot in the dictionary

  1. cacho
  2. Cachola
  3. Cacholas
  4. cacholong
  5. cacholongs
  6. cacholot
  7. cacholote
  8. cacholotes
  9. cacholots
  10. cachopo
  11. cachopos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cacholot (page history and authors); cachalot (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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