TOOTHED WHALE


Meaning of TOOTHED WHALE in English

Common term for members of the cetacean suborder Odontoceti.

Toothed whales have slicing teeth and a throat large enough to swallow chunks of giant squid, cuttlefish, and fish of all kinds. Included in this group are the beluga , killer whale, pilot whales , sperm whale , and mammalian dolphins , porpoises , and narwhals .

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