BEAKED WHALE

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Meaning:

Any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("beaked whale" is a kind of...):

toothed whale (any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beaked whale"):

bottle-nosed whale; bottlenose; bottlenose whale; Hyperoodon ampullatus (northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead)

Holonyms ("beaked whale" is a member of...):

family Hyperodontidae; family Ziphiidae; Hyperodontidae; Ziphiidae (beaked whales; in some especially former classifications included in the family Physeteridae)

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