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sperm whale
noun
- a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
sperm whale
noun
- a large toothed whale, Physeter catodon, having a square-shaped head and hunted for sperm oil, spermaceti, and ambergris: family Physeteridae Also calledcachalot
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sperm whale1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sperm whale1
Example Sentences
A sperm whale which died on Monday after washing up on the island of Raasay had been entangled in ropes.
A sperm whale that died after stranding on the Isle of Harris in November 2019 had a 100kg "litter ball" in its stomach.
There are many other large whales, including blue, fin, sei, humpback, gray and sperm whales.
The scientists mapped and quantified movement for four globally distributed large whale species — the blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales — based on 435,000 locations and then related the data to global shipping activity.
The team found that mandatory measures to reduce whale-ship collisions were very rare, overlapping just 0.54% of blue whale hotspots and 0.27% of humpback hotspots, and not overlapping any fin or sperm whale hotspots.
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