beaked whale

English Thesaurus

1. any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	toothed whale,
definition	:	any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose, bottlenose whale, hyperoodon ampullatus,
definition	:	northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family hyperodontidae, family ziphiidae, hyperodontidae, ziphiidae,
definition	:	beaked whales; in some especially former classifications included in the family Physeteridae (noun.animal)