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Type genus of the Physeteridae
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physeter
Word definitions for physeter in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Physeter \Phy*se"ter\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to blow: cf. F. phys['e]t[`e]re.] (Zo["o]l.) The genus that includes the sperm whale. A filtering machine operated by air pressure.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context zoology English) A member of the genus ''Physeter''; a sperm whale. 2 A filtering machine operated by air pressure.
Usage examples of physeter.
English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale and the Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words.
English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale and the Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words.
In this book is an outline purporting to be a "Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted on deck.