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Definition of Cachalot
1. Noun. Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris.
Generic synonyms: Toothed Whale
Group relationships: Genus Physeter, Physeter
Definition of Cachalot
1. n. 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.
Definition of Cachalot
1. Noun. The sperm whale. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cachalot
1. a large whale [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cachalot
Literary usage of Cachalot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"As there are no less than seven distinctions among whales, so also there are the
same number of distinctions iu the tribe we are describing— the cachalot ..."
2. The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea Or Whales, with Memoir of Lacépède by Franco Mannino, Giuseppe La Licata (1861)
"cachalot.* The general characters which belong to this genus are the great head,
but no baleen ; teeth in the lower jaw only ; spiracle single ; supplying ..."
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. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"A single tooth from the lower jaw of the Great-headed cachalot. ... A rib of the
Great-headed cachalot. Five feet three inches in length. Hunterian. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"The great ocean unites all the circumstances that render the cachalot fishery
... It is a general rule that the cachalot avoids shallows, whereas they are ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Is found in the sea, near the coasts of tropical countries, and as a morbid
product in the intestines of the cachalot or sperm whale (Physeter ..."
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