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noun
Any of at least 20 species of whales in the family Ziphiidae, known to dive to great depths, but not well understood generally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: toothed whale
Narrower terms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, bottlenose, Hyperoodon ampullatus
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