Definition of Family physeteridae

1. Noun. Sperm whales.

Exact synonyms: Physeteridae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Odontoceti, Suborder Odontoceti
Member holonyms: Genus Physeter, Physeter, Genus Kogia, Kogia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Physeteridae

family Phasmatidae
family Phasmidae
family Phillidae
family Phocidae
family Phoenicopteridae
family Phoeniculidae
family Pholadidae
family Pholidae
family Pholididae
family Phthiriidae
family Phyllidae
family Phyllocladaceae
family Phyllostomatidae
family Phyllostomidae
family Phylloxeridae
family Physeteridae
family Physidae
family Phytolaccaceae
family Picidae
family Pieridae
family Pinaceae
family Pinnotheridae
family Piperaceae
family Pipidae
family Pipridae
family Pittidae
family Plantaginaceae
family Plasmodiidae
family Plasmodiophoraceae
family Plataleidae

Literary usage of Family physeteridae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Secession; Or, Despotism and Democracy at Necessary by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The species are numerous; and there are at least three families, — Balaenidae or Right-Whale Family, Physeteridae or Sperm-Whale Family, and Delphinidae or ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"... and shall therefore commence with the former as being in some respects the more primitive members of the family Physeteridae. Snb-Fam. 1. ..."

3. Natural History: A Manual of Zoölogy for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1870)
"The species are numerous ; and there are at least three families, — Balaenidae or Right-Whale Family, Physeteridae or Sperm-Whale Family, and Delphinidae or ..."

4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1904)
"Family PHYSETERIDAE. Teeth entirely absent in the upper jaw and quite variable in the mandible, either numerous as in the sub-family ..."

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