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单词 narwhal
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narwhal
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A narwhal is like the unicorn of whales, with a long pointy tusk sticking out of its head. And, like unicorns, you probably won't spot one (unless you are traveling the Arctic waters near Greenland).
Only male narwhals have a distinctive ivory tusk, which is actually a long, protruding canine tooth. It's a medium-sized whale, related to the beluga, and it's able to dive underwater for up to 25 minutes at a time. Narwhal comes from the Danish narhval, with the Old Norse root nahvalr literally meaning "corpse whale," for the narwhal's pale white color, thought to resemble the shade of a dead body.
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narwhal: narwhals
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Nor should the leopard skin, the narwhal tusk and the whale meat.
Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016)
Like any whale, the narwhal needs to surface to breathe — on average, every four to six minutes.
New York Times(Nov 09, 2016)
Consider the narwhal, an arctic whale whose unicorn-like tusk was believed in the Middle Ages to have healing powers.
Salon(Oct 29, 2016)
n small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk
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Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhale
whale
any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
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