"beaked whale" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: beaked whales [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} beaked whale (plural beaked whales)
  1. Any of at least 20 species of whales in the family Ziphiidae, known to dive to great depths, but not well understood generally. Categories (lifeform): Whales Translations (whales in the family Ziphiidae): zífid [masculine] (Catalan), balena amb bec [feminine] (Catalan), spitssnuitdolfijn [masculine] (Dutch), hammasvalas (Finnish), kuonokoppavalas (Finnish), baleine à bec [feminine] (French), Schnabelwal [masculine] (German), anarnaq (Greenlandic), zifido [masculine] (Italian), baleia-bicuda [feminine] (Portuguese), клюворы́лый кит (kljuvorýlyj kit) [masculine] (Russian), muc-bhiorach [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), zífido [masculine] (Spanish), zifíido [masculine] (Spanish), zifio [masculine] (Spanish), näbbval [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-beaked_whale-en-noun-kuQfb9U2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Derived forms: Andrew's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon bowdoini), Antillean beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon europaeus), Arnoux's beaked whale (taxonomic: Berardius arnuxii), Baird's beaked whale (taxonomic: Berardius bairdii), bandolero beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon peruvianus), Bering Sea beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon stejnegeri), Blainville's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon densirostris), Cuvier's beaked whale (taxonomic: Ziphius cavirostris), deep-crest beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon bowdoini), dense-beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon densirostris), European beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon europaeus), Gervais' beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon europaeus), giant four-toothed whale (taxonomic: Berardius bairdii), ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon ginkgodens), goose-beaked whale (taxonomic: Ziphius cavirostris), Gray's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon grayi), Gulf Stream beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon europaeus), Haast's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon grayi), Hector's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon hectori), Hubbs' beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon carlhubbsi), Indo-Pacific beaked whale (taxonomic: Indopacetus pacificus), Layard's beaked whale(Mesoplodon layardii), lesser beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon peruvianus), Longman's beaked whale (taxonomic: Indopacetus pacificus), North Atlantic beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon bidens), North Pacific bottlenose whale (taxonomic: Berardius bairdii), North Pacific four-toothed whale (taxonomic: Berardius bairdii), North Sea beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon bidens), northern giant bottlenose whale (taxonomic: Berardius bairdii), Perrin's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon perrini), Peruvian beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon peruvianus), pygmy beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon peruvianus), saber-toothed whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon stejnegeri), scamperdown whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon grayi), Shepherd's beaked whale (taxonomic: Tasmacetus shepherdi), southern beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon grayi), Sowerby's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon bidens), splay-toothed whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon bowdoini), Stejneger's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon stejnegeri), strap-toothed beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon layardii), Tasman's beaked whale (taxonomic: Tasmacetus shepherdi), tropical bottlenose whale (taxonomic: Indopacetus pacificus), True's beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon mirus)

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  "word": "beaked whale"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.