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Definition of Bottle-nosed whale
1. Noun. Northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
Generic synonyms: Beaked Whale
Group relationships: Genus Hyperoodon, Hyperoodon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottle-nosed Whale
Literary usage of Bottle-nosed whale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"THE COMMON BEAKED OR BOTTLE- NOSED WHALE This animal attains to a length of from 20
... In colour the bottle-nosed whale is black above and grayish-white ..."
2. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1856)
"In the Northern Whig, published at Belfast on the 20th September, it was stated
that " A bottle-nosed whale, 20 feet long, was last week left on the beach ..."
3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"The Delphinus delphis of Linnaeus, the bottle-nosed porpoise, called by Mr.
Hunter the bottle-nosed whale, having been brought ashore alive by some ..."
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