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Significados de Physeter catodon en inglés
Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris.
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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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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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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.