cachalot – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
cachalot
n.
large toothed whale having square head with a cavity full of a mixture of sperm oil and spermaceti
Sperm whale
cachalot
Noun
1. large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
(synonym) sperm whale, black whale, Physeter catodon
(hypernym) toothed whale
(member-holonym) Physeter, genus Physeter
cachalot
nm.
sperm whale, cachalot
Cachalot
(n.)
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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