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Cachalot   Listen
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cachalot  n.  (Zoöl.) 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.





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... The sperm whale, or cachalot, (genus physeter) is a rare visitor in the higher latitudes. Now and then a solitary specimen is taken in the Northern Atlantic, but the best place to catch a lot is on the Pacific coast. It may be mentioned incidentally, as a curious meteorological coincidence, ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870 • Various


Words linked to "Cachalot" :   sperm whale, black whale, Physeter, genus Physeter, Physeter catodon, toothed whale


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