NARWAL

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Meaning:

Small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk

Synonyms:

Monodon monoceros; narwal; narwhal; narwhale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("narwal" is a kind of...):

whale (any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head)

Holonyms ("narwal" is a member of...):

genus Monodon; Monodon (type genus of the Monodontidae)

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