beaked whale

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   any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw

   Broadertoothed whale

   Narrowerbottle-nosed whale

   Part ofZiphiidae

Questions about beaked whale

What does beaked whale mean?

beaked whale means "any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw".

Is beaked whale a common word?

beaked whale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.