toothed whale

/tuθt weɪl/

/tuθt hweɪl/

Other forms: toothed whales

Definitions of toothed whale

1. noun

   any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.
   types:

   Physeter catodon, black whale, cachalot, sperm whale

   large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris

   Kogia breviceps, pygmy sperm whale

   small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America

   Kogia simus, dwarf sperm whale

   very small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific

   beaked whale

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

   dolphin

   any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

   Hyperoodon ampullatus, bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose, bottlenose whale

   northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead

   Delphinus delphis, common dolphin

   black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water;

   bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin

   any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean

   porpoise

   any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

   Grampus griseus, grampus

   slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas

   Orcinus orca, grampus, killer, killer whale, orca, sea wolf

   predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas

   Globicephala melaena, black whale, blackfish, common blackfish, pilot whale

   small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school

   river dolphin

   any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia

   Delphinapterus leucas, beluga, white whale

   small northern whale that is white when adult

   type of:

   whale

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