单词 | toothed whale |
释义 | toothed whale (once / 196989 pages) n WORD FAMILY toothed whale: toothed whales USAGE EXAMPLESThe skull confirms that Platanista belongs to one of the oldest lineages of toothed whales still alive today. BBC(Aug 17, 2016) Echolocation, or biological sonar, is used by all the world's toothed whales such as dolphins, sperm whales and orcas. Reuters(Aug 04, 2016) The species is a relative of modern toothed whales like dolphins, porpoises and sperm whales. New York Times(Aug 04, 2016) n any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. Hypo|Hyper Physeter catodon, black whale, cachalot, sperm whale large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris Kogia breviceps, pygmy sperm whalesmall sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America Kogia simus, dwarf sperm whalevery small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific beaked whaleany of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw dolphinany of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises Hyperoodon ampullatus, bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose, bottlenose whalenorthern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead Delphinus delphis, common dolphinblack-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water; bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphinany of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean porpoiseany of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth Grampus griseus, grampusslaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas Orcinus orca, grampus, killer, killer whale, orca, sea wolfpredatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas Globicephala melaena, black whale, blackfish, common blackfish, pilot whalesmall dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school river dolphinany of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia Delphinapterus leucas, beluga, white whalesmall northern whale that is white when adult whale any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
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