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common cachalots

common cachalots is the plural of common cachalot.

Meaning of common cachalot

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

Questions about common cachalots

What is common cachalots the plural of?
Common cachalots is the plural of common cachalot.

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  3. common buzzard
  4. common buzzards
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