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Definition of Physeter
1. Noun. Type genus of the Physeteridae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Physeteridae, Physeteridae
Member holonyms: Black Whale, Cachalot, Physeter Catodon, Sperm Whale
Definition of Physeter
1. n. The genus that includes the sperm whale.
Definition of Physeter
1. a whale which spouts [n -S]
Medical Definition of Physeter
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Physeter
Literary usage of Physeter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1871)
"Upper jaw toothless. Atlas and cervical vertebra) all united into a solid mass.
1. physeter. physeter, Gray, lc pp. 196, 210, 386; Synops. Whales 8>. ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"physeter, Lin. The Cachalots(l) are Cetacea with a very voluminous head, exces-.
sively enlarged, particularly in front, in whose upper jaw there is. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"The Occurrence of the Sperm Whale or Cachalot in the Shetland Seas, "with Notes
on the Tymp a no- petrous Bones of physeter, Kogia, and other Odontoceti. ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"... the morphology of habits and diseases of the coal-miners Peach (CW) on the
occurrence of the sperm-whale (physeter ..."
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