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Significats de sperm whale en anglès
Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris.
A toothed whale measuring up to 20 meters long and having a very large head which is typically one-third of the animal's length.
Sinònims
Examples for "cachalot"
Examples for "cachalot"
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I'd as soon expect to sight a cachalot on top of the Rocky Mountains.
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The creature had not quite escaped from the cachalot's teeth.
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The cachalot is a disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to Fredol's description.
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The case of the cachalot is still more difficult.
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The sperm whale, or cachalot, has teeth in its lower jaw, and no whalebone whatever.
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A large black whale, being the first, was seen near the ships.
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The whales killed at the Portland fishery were of two kinds, the right or black whale, and the sperm whale.
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One morning they discovered that the waves had thrown up on the beach a young black whale, nearly twelve feet long.
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At the end of it a large, humpbacked rock showed now and again through the surf, like the fin of a black whale.
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Frequently large shoals of sea-nettles, on which the black whale feeds, have been met with, borne onward towards its haunts in the north.
Ús de sperm whale en anglès
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Ambergris is a secretion formed in the intestines of the sperm whale.
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In length, the common sperm whale-line measures something over two hundred fathoms.
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This bone is thought to be the tooth of the sperm whale.
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Ambergris, highly prized in perfumery, is a product of the sperm whale.
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A sperm whale frequently yields as much as 120 barrels of oil.
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The ocean of ancient Italy had its own killer sperm whale, too.
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He found moa eggs, necklaces, a sperm whale tooth and human remains.
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For short periods, sperm whale groups also socialise with other families.
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The carcass of a sperm whale washed up on the beach this morning.
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From this crushing blow the American sperm whale fishery has never fully recovered.
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He said he had found it inside the stomach of a sperm whale.
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Inside the belly of the juvenile sperm whale was nearly 30kg of plastic.
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She was heaving in her sleep like a beached sperm whale.
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It's the first time that sperm whale vocalizations have been linked to specific individuals.
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The sperm whale is a 'toothed' whale and feeds on squid and other fish.
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Could you describe the technical way the sperm whale communicates?