Crossword clues for cachalot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sperm whale \Sperm" whale`\ (Zo["o]l.) A very large toothed whale ( Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet. It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
Pygmy sperm whale (Zo["o]l.), a small whale ( Kogia breviceps), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called also snub-nosed cachalot.
Sperm-whale porpoise (Zo["o]l.), a toothed cetacean ( Hypero["o]don bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
cachalot \cach"a*lot\, n. [F. cachalot.] (Zo["o]l.) The sperm whale ( Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.
Wiktionary
n. The sperm whale.
WordNet
n : large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris [syn: sperm whale, black whale, Physeter catodon]
Wikipedia
Cachalot ( 1980) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster.
The sperm whale, or common cachalot, is a large toothed whale belonging to the order Cetacea.
Cachalot may also refer to:
- Cachalot (fictional planet), a fictional planet in the Humanx Commonwealth series of novels
- Cachalot (novel), a 1980 science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster
- Cachalot class submarine, a pair of medium-sized submarines of the United States Navy
- USS Cachalot
- HMS Cachalot
- Camp Cachalot, Myles Standish State Forest near Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Cachalot Peak, Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula
Usage examples of "cachalot".
Those with multigenerational ancestry on Cachalot would be represented through the Commissioner.
Among the known sentients, only the cetacea of Cachalot or the Sumacrea of Longtunnel might, upon exerting a supreme effort, have glimpsed an intimation of the process, but no more than that.
One cachalot killed, it ran at the next, tacked on the spot that it might not miss its prey, going forwards and backwards, answering to its helm, plunging when the cetacean dived into the deep waters, coming up with it when it returned to the surface, striking it front or sideways, cutting or tearing in all directions and at any pace, piercing it with its terrible spur.
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.
No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.
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.
But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.
Cachalot learn that the baleens are responsible, even indirectly, for the destruction, a greater threat to the Covenant will arise than any single confrontation could ever create.
Mustapha had lived all his long life on Cachalot, and those who are born to that world know less of seasickness than a worm does of Andromeda.
All born on Cachalot rest in two cradles: their nursery, and the greater nursery of the all-encompassing Mother Ocean.
Those who arrived on Cachalot from other worlds did not long remain if they proved susceptible to motion sickness.
For where on Cachalot could one find fifty fine horsemen and a dead goat?
On Cachalot, the eternal war of wave and cliff had long ago been decided in favor of the wave.
Someone was going to great efforts to keep whatever was happening on Cachalot from the general public.
The possibility of work on Cachalot had been sufficient to persuade her to accept the assignment.