sperm whale

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İngilizce - Türkçe
(Denizbilim) adabalığı
amberbalığı
kadırgabalığı
ispermeçet balinası

Bir ispermeçet balinası, en büyük dişli balinadır. - A sperm whale is the biggest toothed whale.

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pygmy sperm whale
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) cüce kaşalot
İngilizce - İngilizce
A whale (Physeter macrocephalus), the largest of the toothed whales
Called also cachalot, and spermaceti whale
A sperm whale is a large whale with a large head that has a section in it which contains oil. Any of several large, toothed whales of the family Physeteridae, especially Physeter catodon or P. macrocephalus, of tropical and temperate oceans, whose massive head has a cavity containing sperm oil and spermaceti and whose long intestines often contain ambergris. Also called cachalot. a large whale sometimes hunted for its oil and fat. or cachalot Thickset, blunt-snouted toothed whale (Physeter catodon, family Physeteridae) with small, paddlelike flippers and rounded humps on the back. Sperm whales have an enormous head, squarish in profile, and a narrow, underslung lower jaw with large conical teeth that fit into sockets in the toothless upper jaw when the mouth is closed. They are dark blue-gray or brownish. (Herman Melville's Moby-Dick was presumably an albino.) The male grows to 60 ft (18 m). Herds of 15-20 live in temperate and tropical waters worldwide. They commonly dive to 1,200 ft (350 m), feeding primarily on cephalopods. The whales have been hunted for their spermaceti (a waxy substance in the snout, used in ointments and cosmetics) and for ambergris. The pygmy sperm whale (genus Kogia) is a black dolphinlike whale, about 13 ft (4 m) long, of the Northern Hemisphere that lacks commercial value
In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti
The upper jaw is destitute of teeth
It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans
A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size
This whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet
large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris

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dwarf sperm whale
One of the two small whales in the sperm whale family, Kogia sima
pygmy sperm whale
One of the two small whales in the sperm whale family, Kogia breviceps
sperm whales
plural form of sperm whale
The sperm whale
cachalot
dwarf sperm whale
very small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific
pygmy sperm whale
small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America
sperm whale

    Türkçe nasıl söylenir

    spırm hweyl

    Eş anlamlılar

    common cachalot

    Telaffuz

    /ˈspərm ˈhwāl/ /ˈspɜrm ˈhweɪl/

    Etimoloji

    [ 'sp&rm ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English, from Middle French esperme, from Late Latin spermat-, sperma, from Greek, literally, seed, from speirein to sow; probably akin to Armenian p'aratem I dispense.