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common cachalot

common cachalot noun: synonym of sperm whale.

Noun

common cachalot (plural common cachalots)

  1. Synonym of sperm whale.
    • However that may be, so much is certain, that when Sibbald considered this Cetacean which had only teeth in the lower jaw, and whose very great head contained a large quantity of spermaceti, to be a species different from the common cachalots, as well as from the one stranded in the Firth of Forth...1866, William Henry Flower, Daniel Frederik Eschricht, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, Wilhelm Lilljeborg, Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea, Volume 26, page 163
    Synonyms:
    sperm whale

Synonyms of common cachalot

Forms of common cachalot

pluralcommon cachalots

Questions about common cachalot

What does common cachalot mean?
Common cachalot means synonym of sperm whale.
What part of speech is common cachalot?
Common cachalot is a noun.
What is the plural of common cachalot?
The plural of common cachalot is common cachalots.

Words near common cachalot in the dictionary

  1. common bullfinches
  2. common buttonbush
  3. common buttonbushes
  4. common buzzard
  5. common buzzards
  6. common cachalot
  7. common cachalots
  8. common carder bee
  9. common carder bees
  10. common carotid arteries
  11. common carotid artery

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