"sperm whale" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sperm whale.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sperm whales [plural]
Etymology: Clipping of spermaceti whale Etymology templates: {{m|en|spermaceti whale}} spermaceti whale Head templates: {{en-noun}} sperm whale (plural sperm whales)
  1. A whale (Physeter catodon, syn. Physeter macrocephalus), the largest of the toothed whales. Categories (lifeform): Whales Synonyms: cachalot, common cachalot Derived forms: dwarf sperm whale, pygmy sperm whale, sperm whale oil, sperm-whale porpoise Translations (Physeter catodon): kashalot [masculine] (Albanian), حُوتُ الْعَنْبَر (ḥūtu l-ʕanbar) [masculine] (Arabic), կաշալոտ (kašalot) (Armenian), কেছাল’ তিমি (kesalö timi) (Assamese), কেছাল’ (kesalö) (Assamese), cachalote (Asturian), romu (Asturian), kaşalot (Azerbaijani), кашало́т (kašalót) [masculine] (Belarusian), кашало́т (kašalót) [masculine] (Bulgarian), catxalot (Catalan), ᏓᏆ ᎤᏍᏆᎴᏂ (daqua usqualeni) (Cherokee), boah-phang-keng [Hokkien] (Chinese), 抹香鯨 (Chinese Mandarin), 抹香鲸 (mǒxiāngjīng) (Chinese Mandarin), vorvaň [masculine] (Czech), kaskelot [common-gender] (Danish), kaskelothval [common-gender] (Danish), potvis [masculine] (Dutch), kašelott (Estonian), avgustur [masculine] (Faroese), spermur [masculine] (Faroese), kaskelotti (Finnish), cachalot [masculine] (French), cachalote [masculine] (Galician), კაშალოტი (ḳašaloṭi) (Georgian), Pottwal [masculine] (German), φυσητήρας (fysitíras) [masculine] (Greek), kigutilissuaq (Greenlandic), palaoa (Hawaiian), स्पर्म व्हेल (sparm vhel) (Hindi), शुक्राणु व्हेल (śukrāṇu vhel) (Hindi), nagy ámbráscet (Hungarian), óriás ámbráscet (Hungarian), búrhvalur [masculine] (Icelandic), kashaloto (Ido), caisealóid [feminine] (Irish), capodoglio [masculine] (Italian), 抹香鯨 (makkōkujira) (alt: まっこうくじら) (Japanese), マッコウクジラ (makkōkujira) (Japanese), кашалот (kaşalot) (Kazakh), 향고래 (hyanggorae) (Korean), кашалот (kaşalot) (Kyrgyz), physeter [masculine] (Latin), kašalots [masculine] (Latvian), kašalotas [masculine] (Lithuanian), кашалот (kašalot) [masculine] (Macedonian), paus sperma (Malay), parāoa (Maori), кашалот (kašalot) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), заарт халим (zaart xalim) [China, Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠵᠢᠭᠠᠷᠲᠤ ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ (ǰiɣartu qalimu) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), maaʔak (Nootka), spermhval [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kaskelott [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), trollkval [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), spermkval [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kaskelott [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), عنبر (english: 'amber) (Ottoman Turkish), کاشالوت (kâšâlot) (Persian), نهنگ عنبر (nahang-e 'anbar) (Persian), kaszalot [masculine] (Polish), cachalote [masculine] (Portuguese), cașalot [masculine] (Romanian), кашало́т (kašalót) [masculine] (Russian), уљешура [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ulješura [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), vorvaň [masculine] (Slovak), kit glavač [masculine] (Slovene), cachalote [masculine] (Spanish), nyangumi-shahawa (Swahili), kaskelot [common-gender] (Swedish), pottval [common-gender] (Swedish), spermacetival [common-gender] (Swedish), кашалот (kašalot) (Tajik), วาฬสเปิร์ม (Thai), ispermeçet balinası (Turkish), kadırga balığı (Turkish), kaşalot (Turkish), kaşalot (Turkmen), кашало́т (kašalót) [masculine] (Ukrainian), kashalot (Uzbek), cá nhà táng (Vietnamese), morfil gwyn [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-sperm_whale-en-noun-YKgR62B9 Disambiguation of Whales: 65 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 59 41 Disambiguation of 'Physeter catodon': 87 13
  2. Any whale in the superfamily Physeteroidea, which also includes the small whales of genus Kogia.
    Sense id: en-sperm_whale-en-noun-Ro94CkKa

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      "code": "ko",
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      "word": "향고래"
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      "word": "кашалот"
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      "word": "кашалот"
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      "code": "fa",
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        "masculine"
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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        "masculine"
      ],
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      "code": "sh",
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    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "kašalot",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "word": "кашалот"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "word": "วาฬสเปิร์ม"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "word": "ispermeçet balinası"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "word": "kadırga balığı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "word": "kaşalot"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "word": "kaşalot"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kašalót",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кашало́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "word": "kashalot"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "word": "cá nhà táng"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "Physeter catodon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morfil gwyn"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Sperm Whale"
  ],
  "word": "sperm whale"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c 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.