bottle-nosed whale

American  

Or bottlenose whale,

noun

1. any of various beaked whales of the family Hyperoodontidae, characterized by a bulbous forehead, especially Hyperoodon ampullatus of the North Atlantic.

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Example Sentences

The hyperoodon or bottle-nosed whale, explained the Curator-in-Chief of Living & Extinct Fishes in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, has an enormous head and a ridiculously short neck.

From Time Magazine Archive

These muscles existing in the true bottle-nosed whale had a special interest, as the teeth in that whale were rudimentary and functionless.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

I assured him there were no shoals in the vicinity of the yacht; and I took up the field-glasses, and saw quite plainly that it was a bottle-nosed whale.

From Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Runciman, Walter

There is a kind of bottle-nosed whale the Indians never harpoon; they call him "Hik-na-critchka,"—more bone than blubber.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James