bottle-nosed whale

Definitions of bottle-nosed whale
  1. noun
    northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
    synonyms: Hyperoodon ampullatus, bottlenose, bottlenose whale
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    type of:
    beaked whale
    any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
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